Books
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British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow
The farce, by the team behind “The Play That Goes Wrong,” is about a bumbling theater company attempting to stage…
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Read Your Way Through Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination.…
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This Is Girlhood, Warts and All
In “Sam,” Allegra Goodman provides a sweeping yet intimate view of the challenges and triumphs of growing up.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…
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Teen Stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Sue Over Nudity in 1968 Film
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting assert in a lawsuit that Paramount Pictures should have known nude images of them in…
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Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10
“There are all these unbelievable artists who are creating work that’s really hard to define,” Beth Morrison, a music theater…
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When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen
Films as different as the biopic “Till” and the thriller “Resurrection” use lengthy monologues to give female characters the chance…
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For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing
The studio behind stop-motion hits like ‘Coraline’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ started work on the new film in 2008 but…
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SZA Spends a Third Week Atop the Album Chart With ‘SOS’
Mariah Carey led an avalanche of Christmas songs on Billboard’s singles chart as holiday music lingered into the last week…