Books
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A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand?
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Four score and 79 years ago this Saturday, Abraham Lincoln stood up in the newly dedicated cemetery…
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Kumail Nanjiani Didn’t Know He Was Playing the Bad Guy
Kumail Nanjiani had read the scripts. He had shot the scenes. But when he saw the rough cuts of the…
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Review: On Broadway, ‘& Juliet’ (& Britney & Katy & Pink)
They don’t even bother to hide the jukebox. It’s right there, out in the open, before the show starts: a…
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Ticketmaster Cancels Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets After Snags
Ticketmaster has canceled its planned public sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s latest tour after a whirlwind few days that…
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Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and…
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A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’
BOSTON — A sobering thought: The founders of the period-instrument movement, who from the 1960s or so wielded their new…
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Jacob’s Pillow Theater, Destroyed in Fire, to Be Rebuilt
Two years ago, a devastating fire destroyed the Doris Duke Theater, a hub of creativity and experimentation on the campus…
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‘The Crown’: The Story of Mohamed Al-Fayed and His Valet
LONDON — It’s 1946 in a dusty square in Alexandria, Egypt. Teenagers play a boisterous football match, and one of…
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Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain
Do flower children still inhabit a dying planet? If temperatures keep rising, will there be anything left of the garden?…
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Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup
One of the great things about “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition” at the Museum of Modern Art is that “Object,” the…