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6 Ravishing Period Dramas You Need to See in 2025
After six glorious seasons and two highly nostalgic big-screen outings, the Crawleys (Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle…
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Beauty
The Best Detangling Brushes Make It Easy to Achieve Sleek, Knot-Free Hair
Flexible bristles: Bristles should glide effortlessly through knots without pulling or snagging, ensuring a gentle detangling experience.…
Beauty
The Best Places in the World to Travel Solo
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the phrase “solo travel” was most likely to evoke imagery of Julia Roberts cycling down a…
World
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
World
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to…
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Giorgio Morandi Tried to Fit the World on a Table
As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s…
World
The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of…
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The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
In 1975, a rape victims’ advocate named Linda Reinshagen shared a story with a reporter from the Chicago Tribune. A man on the South Side…
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L.A.’s New-Music Bastion
The first edition of Monday Evening Concerts, the world’s longest-running new-music series, took place on April 23, 1939, in a house on…
World
The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In…
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Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, as her…
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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
There are awards for the year’s best films but not for its best TikTok videos. That’s too bad, since 2024 yielded several tiny…
World
Washington’s Hostess with the Mostes’
Washington still cherishes a belief that it was long a place of bipartisan comity, of after-hours socializing during which fences were…
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Why Zora Neale Hurston Was Obsessed with the Jews
Zora Neale Hurston was a philosemite. She believed that the Jews had been victims of stereotyping that started with Moses and that was…
World
Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
On November 28, 1924, Raymond A. Dart, a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, was getting ready to attend a…
Style
Tabula Rasa: Volume Five
This is the fifth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four. Bleb “Bleb” is worth eight points in…
World
The New Season of “Severance” Is All Work and No Play
The sci-fi series “Severance” styles itself as a tidy allegory for the misery of the modern office drone. Most of the employees on the…
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He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest,…
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Every Mandala Tells a Secret
There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any…
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify.…
World
Kyle Abraham’s Extraordinary Dance Memoir
Kyle Abraham is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. He has been on the downtown contemporary-dance scene for more than two…
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Audra McDonald Triumphs in “Gypsy” on Broadway
In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to…
World
The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Greene’s nearly decade-long collaboration with Morgan was arguably the most important relationship of her life outside her family, and I…
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Family Discord and Holiday Music in “Cult of Love” and “No President”
The first image of Leslye Headland’s family drama,“Cult of Love,” on Broadway at the Hayes, looks like a Christmas card. Behind a gauzy…