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The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as…
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V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry
Candidly. The past, the sensations of the past. Now! in cuneiform, of umbrella satrap square-carts with hotdogs and onions of red syrup…
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Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Leave it to Richard Linklater to see how, in art, the fundamental things apply. In his two new movies—“Blue Moon,” about the lyricist…
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Misty Copeland’s Ballet Send-Off
Sometimes a return is also a farewell. Misty Copeland, the first Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, may be the most…
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A Bold New Oedipus Makes a 2,500-year-old Play Strikingly Modern
Icke admits that when casting, he often thinks, “Who’s like this?” rather than, “Whose acting is like this?” He says that he wanted…
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Where Confidence Meets Care: The Lips and Drips Experience - Social Lifestyle Magazine
In just one year after opening their second location by the beach, Lips and Drips in Margate, NJ has become more than a med spa—it’s a…
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A Season of Rage at the Philharmonic and the Met
John Corigliano’s First Symphony, which Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic presented early in the new season, begins with a…
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Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities
Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of…
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Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed?
Since Taylor Swift launched the record-breaking Eras Tour, in 2023—a hundred and forty-nine dates, fifty-one cities, more than two billion…
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Man Ray’s Deadpan Wit on Display at the Met
“When Objects Dream,” the sensational Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Feb. 1), is centered on the artist’s refined…
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“After the Hunt” Is a Pleasurably Ludicrous House of Cards
In Luca Guadagnino’s film, Julia Roberts plays a Yale professor forced to choose sides when a student accuses a colleague of sexual…
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Stop Scrolling. Start Rolling. The KeraRoller Just Dropped & It’s Gunna Be Your Scalp’s Next Best Friend - Social Lifestyle Magazine
The Future of At-Home Scalp Care Has Arrived: KeraFactor® Launches the KeraRoller For years, conversations around thinning hair have been…
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Creators Welcome: Inside Entertainment Lab’s Digital Talent Revolution - Social Lifestyle Magazine
Have you ever dreamed of working with top influencers, Hollywood talent, and leading literary voices from coast to coast? In this exciting…
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Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
Stein’s authority as an arbiter was bolstered by an ambiguously gendered seduction. Genius, she believed, was a masculine trait, and she…
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Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us
When we think of the history of free-speech rights, we tend to think of the Anglo-American legal tradition. A virtue of Dabhoiwala’s book…
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“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury
At a crucial moment in “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, someone cries out, “Who are…
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Richard Brody’s New York Film Festival Picks
Sometimes names are misleading. Arabic numerals originated in India, Chinese checkers are German, white chocolate isn’t chocolate at all.…
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LACMA’s Michael Govan and Katherine Ross Wanted a Home With a View. They Found an Architectural Marvel
Govan and Ross have become central players in LA’s cultural scene since they arrived in the city two decades ago. He’s the visionary…
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“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made…
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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader,…
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The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part…
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
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The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…