Books
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Justin Torres Finds Inspiration in the Erasures of Queer History
Any sense of anonymity that Justin Torres had enjoyed as an author was on the verge of vanishing. Shortly before…
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Alabama Sculpture Park Aims to Look at Slavery Without Flinching
The new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, opening in early 2024 in Montgomery, Ala., arrives at a time when Black history…
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‘Stereophonic’ Finds Drama in a ’70s Rock Recording Booth
The playwright David Adjmi explores the in-studio creation process in a play with new songs by the former Arcade Fire…
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Well-Made, and Massively Weird: A New Theater Season in Berlin
Recent premieres in the city ranged from a spare take on the recent Broadway hit “Prima Facie” to a dose…
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Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ Finally Found in the Dark
Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult…
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Sparks Fly When the N.F.L. and Pop Collide. So Does Coverage.
When two worlds — one dominated by the N.F.L. and the other by Taylor Swift — collided, so did culture…
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Morgan Wallen Returns to No. 1 in a Slow Chart Week
With Drake’s “For All the Dogs” and Taylor Swift’s rerecording of “1989” waiting in the wings, Wallen’s “One Thing at…
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In This Novel, Opposites Don’t Attract. They Converge.
“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?
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Looking to the Dutch Masters for Answers to Life’s Big Questions
THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Meetings With the Dutch Masters, by Benjamin Moser When he moved from New York to the Netherlands…
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It’s Drake’s Season of Discontent, Again
The rapper’s new album, “For All the Dogs,” comes after a summer of live-show triumph and extra-musical boredom.