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The Violence in Vermeer
As yet, archival research has failed to substantiate this conversation, although it appears, more or less intact, in the 2003 movie…
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A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.…
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St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?
This revisionist view of Paul has reached a climax with Nina E. Livesey’s recent book, “The Letters of Paul in Their Roman Literary…
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Jaafar Jackson on What It Took to Portray His Uncle, the King of Pop, in “Michael”
Playing a pop icon like Michael Jackson for the big screen would be intimidating for any rising actor and singer—but later this month, it…
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In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread…
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Under the Influence at the Whitney Biennial
Although Sula Bermúdez-Silverman’s simultaneously austere and sensual handblown glass sculptures—which are light-bulb-shaped and affixed…
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How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously…
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What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital
Before meeting Graff and his patients, Schiele made art that was largely derivative. He had studied at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts with…
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Eugène Atget’s Epic Record of Time and Place
Through his conversations with artists, he learned that they sometimes used photographs as source materials. Atget decided to provide…
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The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm
Hite was not like other sexologists, with their academic affiliations and institutionally approved methods. She was not much like Alfred…
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What Walter Benjamin Knew
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. Source link
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The Haunting Talent of Noah Davis
The show opens with Davis’s early work, some of which is precisely that. Looking at reproductions, I’d been eager to see “40 Acres and a…
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Vocal Resistance at the New York Festival of Song
We began in the world that was—in the humid atmosphere of fin-de-siècle Vienna, from which Zemlinsky, Schreker, and Schoenberg emerged. In…
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“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are…
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How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
St. Bride’s, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists’ church. Having weathered not a few disasters—the…
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“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
In 2023, the writer Patricia Lockwood chafed at Wallace’s supposed sainthood in a long piece for the London Review of Books. The essay, in…
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44 Thoughts I Had While Watching ‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 3
Okay, this week’s episode of The Pitt wasn’t the best one I’ve ever seen (not enough Dana, maybe? Definitely not enough Santos-Garcia…
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“He Was the King of Rome”: Inside Valentino Garavani’s Moving and Majestic Roman Funeral
When I arrived in Rome yesterday for this morning’s funeral of Valentino, who died on Monday, January 19, the sun was shining and the air…
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Could ‘Magic Mike Live’ Be the Key to Longevity?
How many different ways are there to take off a shirt? That’s what I find myself wondering one rainy morning in September. No, I’m not at…
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How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished,…
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These Colors Will Be Everywhere in Interior Design in 2026
Austin-based interior designer Annie Downing agrees that earthy colors are in. One particular shade she loves? Yellowish-orange ochre. “It…
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Don’t Mistake Madeline Cash’s ‘Lost Lambs’ for an “Internet Novel”—It’s as Human as They Come
A couple’s open marriage collapses as their three daughters are sucked into a billionaire-led criminal conspiracy in Madeline Cash’s…
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This Reimagined Lodge in Uganda Is the Ultimate Base for Gorilla Trekking
We watched as she cradled him in her arms. When he’d attempt to hobble in our direction, she’d reach for his leg to gently pull him back.…