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The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support…
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The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk
Perhaps you’re an American waiting at a bus stop, in a country not your own, ruminating on the limits of democracy at home. A bus passes,…
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“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,”…
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we…
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Renzo Piano’s Light Touch
The world-renowned architect Renzo Piano grew up in Italy watching his father, a local builder, work on construction sites, and he was…
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What America Means to Latin Americans
On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water that had been known…
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The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York,…
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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He’s Born?
When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he…
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Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the…
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Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak
The important thing to know about Danny & Coop’s, the new Philly-cheesesteak restaurant in the East Village co-owned by Bradley Cooper, of…
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“Invention” Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era
Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a…
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London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory
Long before Richard II ran afoul of mutinous nobles, and almost two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Richard’s portrait in majestic…
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“Sinners” Is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires, in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” to…
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Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself
“Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s opinion,…
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Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A.
Is Gjelina, with its three locations, a chain now? It’s certainly more than just a restaurant. Lett left the Gjelina Group in 2019,…
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
You almost forget that Elisabeth Moss can smile. The lead actor on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now in its sixth and final season, spent…
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Regrets, the YouTube Moms Have a Few
When Ryan O’Neal was making the promotional rounds for “Paper Moon,” in 1973, the actor informed the press that he did not want his…
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In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their…
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The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung…
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Retro Masculinity in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck”
At the climax of David Mamet’s masterpiece “Glengarry Glen Ross”—now at the Palace, in its fourth Broadway production since 1984—a…
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Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits
When, last month, the preposterously gifted twenty-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim played Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto at the…
