Books
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Review: For ‘Molly Sweeney,’ Not Seeing Was Never the Obstacle
The Irish Rep ends its season-long Brian Friel survey with the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation…
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Which Cannes Films Might Become Oscar Contenders?
Films backed by the studio Neon have won Cannes and gone on to Oscar nominations regularly in the last few…
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Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
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Feeling Lonely? Grouchy? Murderous? There’s a Spell for That.
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday…
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Leslye Headland Hopes the Force Is With ‘The Acolyte’
Her new “Star Wars” show is a dream come true, but she knows it carries enormous expectations. “I would be…
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A Crowning Achievement in a Neighborhood’s Fight Against Air Pollution
The artist Jordan Weber’s queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor.
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A Celebration of Frank London’s Music Will Be Missing One Thing: Him
The trumpeter, composer and bandleader who helped revitalize klezmer is battling cancer. But his work hasn’t slowed, and his longtime…
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Stream These 12 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in June
Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon when they were kids-ish, Clint Eastwood as a drug mule on the other side of…
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Bill Walton’s Long, Special Relationship With the Grateful Dead
“It wasn’t like he was a fan,” the drummer Mickey Hart said. “He was part of our family.”
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Two More ‘Succession’ Actors Are Broadway Bound, in ‘Job’
Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.