Books
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‘The Swimmers’ Review: Overcoming the Greatest Challenges
In most movies, an emotional triumph at the Olympics would be the principal goal for a protagonist. In “The Swimmers,”…
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‘The Sound of Christmas’ Review: A Gospel Singer Finds Love
Here’s a name you may not have heard in a while: Ne-Yo. The R&B singer known for early aughts hits…
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The Dinosaur Bone Market Is Booming. It Also Has Growing Pains.
HULETT, Wyo. — Crouching over a snow-dusted quarry that moonlights as a fossil hunting ground, Peter Larson pointed to a…
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Jenna Ortega Knows What Wednesday Addams Wants
Jenna Ortega has been locked in a basement with a corpse in “X.” She has shot a serial killer to…
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Schumann: The Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin; Daniel Barenboim, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) These recordings of Schumann’s four symphonies ...
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In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception
“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then…
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They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music
It was the late 1990s, and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin saw a woman crying backstage at a concert hall in Michigan.…
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‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional
Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love…
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
Among the thousands of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection is the 1980 Nan Goldin photograph titled “Heart-Shaped…
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‘Nanny’ Review: A New Job That Swallows Her Life
There’s a brief, flawlessly calibrated scene early in “Nanny” when the title character first sees the room where she is…