Books
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Musical Adaptation of ‘Almost Famous’ Will Close on Broadway
The show, a passion project for Cameron Crowe, opened on Broadway in early November, but has faced soft sales in…
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Amber Heard Says She Has Decided to ‘Settle’ Johnny Depp Defamation Case
The long-running legal battle was heading for its next chapter in an appeals court, but Ms. Heard said she wished…
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The Best Genre Movies of 2022
We look at the best in horror, science fiction, action and international films, all available to stream.
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Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set
Julie Taymor’s version of Mozart’s opera, a fairy tale of puppets and plexiglass, achieves its finest form in the Met’s…
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‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink
A new production of Denis Johnson’s final play showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and…
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What ‘Harry & Meghan’ Still Doesn’t Say About Race
Meghan Markle could have been a symbolic ambassador for the monarchy, particularly for people of color. But what would that…
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The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter
In “Remains Persist,” the choreographer Moriah Evans oversees a four-hour experiment that proposes a new way of looking at dance.
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A Biracial Family Risks Persecution in 1920s Cape Town
Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel, “Scatterlings,” witnesses the dissolution of a young family in the wake of South Africa’s Immorality Act,…
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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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How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O
Nearly all of the sea shots in the blockbuster are digital. But making them seem real via performance capture led…