Books
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Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before
A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of…
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‘Barbie’ Didn’t Make Our Top 10. Readers Spoke Up.
When our critics shared their top film, TV, pop music and theater picks, readers suggested “Billions,” “The Holdovers,” “Sabbath’s Theater”…
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The Breakout Stars of 2023
These eight performers and artists broke away from the pack this year, delighting us and making us think.
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Dancers of All Sizes Hope Change Follows a Discrimination Ban
Not long ago, Akira Armstrong was invited to appear on a new reality dance competition. She was thrilled. The founder…
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In ‘The Crown,’ the Lonely Final Days of a Naughty Princess
In the sixth season, Princess Margaret suffers a series of strokes that shatter her glamorous exterior. “She doesn’t know how…
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Can the Oompa-Loompas Be Saved?
“Wonka” is the latest film to try to shake the tiny unpaid laborers from their colonialist roots in Roald Dahl’s…
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Review: Onstage, the ‘Stranger Things’ Franchise Eats Itself
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a London theater show based on the Netflix series, pummels the audience with sensory overload…
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‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: The Holocaust, Reduced to Background Noise
Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
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All Together Now: Dance Takes Over the Perelman Arts Center
“The March” explores unison, while “Is It Thursday Yet?” concerns a dancer’s struggle to understand herself after receiving a diagnosis…
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Madonna’s Latest Experiment: Looking Back
Her Celebration Tour is the pop superstar’s first retrospective, one which thematically explores her past and perhaps offers a glimpse…