Books
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‘Sesame Street: The Musical’ Review: Everything’s A-OK
Bert has stage fright, Ernie has wandered off to take a bath, and a certain blue gourmand has already eaten…
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‘Goat,’ ‘Dope’ and More Streaming Gems
This month’s off-the-grid streaming suggestions are an even more eclectic mix than usual: a handful of indie dramas, genre treats…
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Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary
When last we saw Suzy Nakamura on “Avenue 5,” her character, the strictly business executive assistant Iris Kimura, was headed…
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For the Love of Beer and His Buddies
Chickie Donohue, 81, has been telling saloon stories since his teens, but there’s one he no longer has to tell.…
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Film Academy’s Museum Connects With Visitors in First Year
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been something that almost no one in Hollywood expected: an instant hit. After…
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For the Saxophonist Zoh Amba, Free Jazz Is Gospel
The saxophonist Zoh Amba recently led a guest into the Upper West Side brownstone that houses the Vedanta Society of…
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K-pop Queens Blackpink Hit No. 1 With CDs and ‘Signed’ Digital Albums
It may be a streaming world, but getting to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart these days often comes…
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A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight
Few pieces of music are as tied to the place where they premiered as Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife).” Commissioned…
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A Formative Friendship Cut Short by Tragedy
STAY TRUE: A Memoir, by Hua Hsu. One of the funny things about adolescence is that the world can seem…
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She Lost Her Brother Years Ago. Why Does She Keep Seeing Him?
THE FURROWS: An Elegy, by Namwali Serpell “Have you ever walked between two great big airplane hangars and it made…