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If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently
“Injustice” largely ignores those cases. Its drama is tightly enclosed within the D.O.J.—illuminatingly but also, at times, suffocatingly…
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Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
“It was the first time in my life I didn’t have to do anything,” Asawa later said. She took drawing lessons from three interned Disney…
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Apple and Issey Miyake Unite for the iPhone Pocket—“It’s a Moment of Connecting the Dots”
Faithful to Apple’s history of paper engineering, the packaging comes with ceremony—and a Japanese twist. The long, frosted paper that…
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Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time…
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Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to be a pop girlie. Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the “tortured poets,” but…
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At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute.…
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A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
That’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon…
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Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
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The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”
To most readers, this will seem like fantasy. To Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a large, middle class Polish…
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Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large,…
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I Honeymooned at Police Headquarters. My Wedding Was Still the Best Day of My Life
Our initial days as newlyweds brought about unique challenges. I was livid he’d forgotten his wallet. He was livid that his now-wife, a…
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Why Immanuel Kant Still Has More to Teach Us
That may not exactly sound like a call to arms, but the title of an expert and engaging new introduction to the philosopher encourages us…
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How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood
With the Enlightenment, monsters were brought under the lamp of reason. The Hydra, the unicorn, mermaids—careful observers exposed them as…
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How Classic Sauces Became Chic Again
Elaborate sauce-making declined under the bistronomy movement’s simpler ethos, rising health consciousness, and the New Nordic insistence…
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I’m Not a Carrie, I’m a Cathy
There are, of course, Cathy cartoons that just don’t hold up, effectively encapsulating our lowest societal expectations of women. (Did we…
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How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
In retrospect, the book feels like an artifact of a fleetingly optimistic moment, and of a time when the mainstreaming of feminism—recall…
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This Ionian Island Is the Next Big Thing in Greece
As our yacht zips around the southern side of stingray-shaped Zakynthos, each bend holds a new surprise: a series of caves carved into the…
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Tame Impala Is an Obsessive, Not a Perfectionist
The magic of Parker’s music—what makes his records so restless, dithery, dynamic—hinges on the minuscule yet crucial difference between…
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All the Beauty Products Taylor Swift Used in Her Post-Eras Tour Bath Routine
What beauty products does Taylor Swift use on tour? Everyone has their best guesses, but the answer has long evaded even the most…
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Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Era Continues With a New Tour Documentary and Final Show Concert Film
In the Disney+ trailer announcing both projects, we see Taylor being led to the stage in her glittering dress for the “Enchanted” set.…
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Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself
But it wasn’t until he arrived in Paris, during his junior year abroad, that he could truly nurture his bohemian streak. The city was…
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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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Hemlocke Springs Is Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Opener
What are you most looking forward to about your next set of shows with Chappell in LA? Don’t get me wrong, I am really looking forward to…
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What Could Lady Gaga Possibly Be Doing in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’?
I would be excited to catch up with Andrea Sachs and the rest of the Runway gang in the hotly anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada…