Books
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What Can’t You Say These Days?
THE INDISPENSABLE RIGHT: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, by Jonathan Turley Conservative voices are being silenced. We know…
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Writers, the Wretched of the Earth
In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.
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How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
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You Talkin’ Like Him? A Convention Lets De Niro Fans Get In on the Act.
Participants at De Niro Con in Tribeca could talk like Travis Bickle, shadowbox like Jake LaMotta or get a tattoo…
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Faith, Meet Futility
A new tier of knights, monsters and freaks often exceeds the most demanding late-game adversaries of Elden Ring. Belief in…
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Huey Lewis Musical to Close on Broadway as New Shows Struggle
“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony…
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Anthony Fauci, a Hero to Some and a Villain to Others, Keeps His Cool
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health…
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How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”
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A Hot, Fraught Cape Cod Family Drama
In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at…
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Review: In ‘Dark Noon,’ American History Is a Shoot-’Em-Up Western
A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of…