Books
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Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,byNicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In…
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How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
Richard Hatch was searching the card catalog of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, hunting for intriguing titles under the…
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Game Reviews: Escape the Heat by Ascending an Ocean Throne
Crab God is an alluring endeavor that’s instructive about real-world environmental challenges. Riven enters the 3-D era with a remake…
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I Saw My Anxiety Reflected in ‘Inside Out 2.’ It Floored Me.
In a way that’s both cathartic and devastating, Pixar’s latest portrays how anxiety can take hold, our critic writes.
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Discord at the Symphony: Losing a Star, San Francisco Weighs Its Future
The struggles of one of the nation’s finest orchestras show the difficulties facing classical music in the United States.
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‘House of the Dragon’: Elliott and Luke Tittensor on That Brutal Duel
Episode 2 pit brother against brother, in more ways than one. The two actors, identical twins, talked about the intensity…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Sleep With One Eye Open
Aemond knows those assassins got the wrong prince. He says he feels flattered. He had also better watch his back.
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4 Fun, Flirty New Romance Novels
It’s a great setup for a joke: A superhero walks into a gay bar and gets rescued from avid fans…
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On ‘Couples Therapy,’ They Discuss Intimacy Like Nobody’s Watching
The Showtime series gives audiences an intimate look inside real relationships. Its couples are still navigating the aftermath.
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De la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of Maximalism
Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.