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Jul 07, 2020
The British pop star, who's releasing her first album in five years, "Brightest Blue," also has Kate Bush and an Almodóvar film on her list of cultural must-haves.
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Jul 07, 2020
The musician became a star on the city's experimental music scene, but her personal life spiraled into chaos. A move to Los Angeles unlocked her creativity and let her find joy again.
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Jul 07, 2020
"Accelerate Every Voice," a new album, is a step forward in another facet of this dazzling pianist's career: composing.
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Jul 07, 2020
Lacy Crawford told her story when she was a student at St. Paul's School. Few people listened. Now she's telling it again.
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Jul 07, 2020
This new Starz drama is set in a strip club but "pulses with the female gaze," said the creator, Katori Hall. Its premise is that sex work is as worthy of exploration as any other kind of work.
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Jul 07, 2020
"The Vapors," by David Hill, brings the mobsters, gamblers, drinkers and crooked politicians to life in an exuberant history of a now-forgotten capital of sleaze.
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Jul 07, 2020
David James Poissant's "Lake Life" tests the limits of a family's capacity for love and forgiveness.
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Jul 07, 2020
Take bored boys. Add lucid dreaming. Shake vigorously. Welcome to Alex North's dark thriller, "The Shadows."
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Jul 07, 2020
Michele Harper's memoir could not be more timely. Also, if think your job is stressful, take a walk in this author's white coat.
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Jul 07, 2020
Two new story collections reveal the toxicities of (mostly white) masculinity, from the frat house to the Midwestern farm.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Raising a Rare Girl," Heather Lanier writes about a daughter who has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
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Jul 07, 2020
"22 Minutes of Unconditional Love," by Daphne Merkin, muses on the process of making up stories while recounting a young woman's torrid affair with an older man.
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Jul 07, 2020
In Lysley Tenorio's debut novel, "The Son of Good Fortune," the Filipino-American journey is over before the story even begins.
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Jul 07, 2020
Camilla Lackberg shows how stifled ambition never really goes away. It just bides its time.
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Jul 07, 2020
Lynn Steger Strong's new novel follows a Brooklyn wife and mother through professional failure, bankruptcy and the legacy of her past traumas.
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Jul 07, 2020
Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, Rachel Beanland's debut novel wades through heartbreak.
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Jul 07, 2020
In Robin Wasserman's new novel, "Mother Daughter Widow Wife," a young woman found on a city bus has no identification, no memory, and no one looking for her.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Cool for America," Andrew Martin's characters are caught in a lingering post-adolescence, stretching for a certainty that eludes them.
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Jul 07, 2020
Christina Schwarz's fifth novel tells the life story of half of the famous duo, showing the loneliness of life on the lam.
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Jul 07, 2020
A memoir from a Twitter celebrity doesn't name names, but it does provide an entertaining back story.
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Jul 07, 2020
Fans of his Borne trilogy, whether young or old, will find much to enjoy in "A Peculiar Peril."
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Jul 07, 2020
Erica C. Barnett's memoir, "Quitter," chronicles her long and winding road to an alcohol-free life.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Desert Notebooks," a study of arid America reveals the roots of our present calamities.
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Jul 07, 2020
Julian E. Zelizer's "Burning Down the House" sees Newt Gingrich's rise in Congress as a turning point in political history.
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Jul 07, 2020
Watch a family drama starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, or stream a new Netflix special by the Australian comic Jim Jefferies.
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Jul 06, 2020
The actor, who plays Kwame on the HBO show, discusses assumptions about sexual assault, his character's survival mechanisms and why the show needs room to breathe.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Disney filmed version has fans wondering what's accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.
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Jul 06, 2020
He was a singer, songwriter, bandleader and a blazing fiddle player on hits like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." His politics swung, too, from left to right.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Broadway star died from the coronavirus, despite being just 41 and in apparent good health. Cases like his, experts said, are growing.
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Jul 06, 2020
She was best-known for the 1964 album "Poor Little Rich Girl." Ms. Nunes died of Covid-19.
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Jul 06, 2020
Theaters in the Berkshires are planning live shows, "Godspell" and "Harry Clarke," with limited audiences and virus-related protocols in place. One will be indoors, and one outdoors.
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Jul 06, 2020
Through her Essential Workers series, Aya Brown, 24, has shined a spotlight on the Black women in New York who work in hospitals, schools and retail.
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Jul 06, 2020
He was a singer, songwriter, bandleader and a blazing fiddler on hits like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia."
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Jul 06, 2020
An alumnus has filed a suit to save a fresco at the University of Kentucky that depicts enslaved people; a Black artist whose work is shown with it also wants the mural to stay.
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Jul 06, 2020
In her debut novel, Kelli Jo Ford summons the details of minimum-wage existence in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Atlanta rapper Lil Baby notched a fifth week at No. 1 and Lil Durk returned to No. 2 with recently refreshed releases.
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Jul 06, 2020
His vast output included atmospheric music for spaghetti westerns in his native Italy and scores for some 500 movies by a Who's Who of directors.
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Jul 06, 2020
Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the namesake imprint at one of the country's largest book publishers.
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Jul 06, 2020
After a weekslong campaign, artists in Britain welcomed the move, which will provide support to recipients like "local basement" music venues and museums.
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Jul 06, 2020
Carice van Houten, the Red Priestess, brings an Iris van Herpen dress to life in a short film.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Tshiuetin line, the first railroad in North America owned and operated by First Nations people, is a symbol of reclamation and defiance for the communities it serves.
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Jul 06, 2020
Returning with a new band, Jarv Is, the onetime Pulp leader explains how David Bowie saved his life and why he can't give up songwriting — yet.
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Jul 06, 2020
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a series of novels by Black authors married revolutionary politics with pulp fiction. Their plotlines remain distressingly relevant.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Italian composer wrote atmospheric scores for spaghetti westerns and some 500 films by a Who's Who of international directors.
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Jul 06, 2020
The Crunchyroll original anime series makes its debut. And the final film by the director Bill Gunn arrives on Mubi.
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Jul 05, 2020
The Broadway actor's battle with the coronavirus was followed closely by many as his wife chronicled his experience on social media.
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Jul 05, 2020
The Broadway actor's battle with the coronavirus was followed closely by many as his wife chronicled his experience on social media.
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Jul 05, 2020
For all its brooding and disfigured corpses, the series is also showing it has a lighter side.
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Jul 05, 2020
This Lorraine Hansberry play, set in the 1960s in a fictional African country, speaks incisively to the American present.
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Jul 05, 2020
This 1992 animated movie about Black children running into trouble at a theme park is meant to be a comedy. But for one viewer, it no longer seems so funny.
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Jul 05, 2020
Revisit Bill Gunn's low-budget vampire horror film, and catch Showtime's new investigative mini-series.
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Jul 04, 2020
He was acclaimed for his noble style, and for being a partner who showed off his ballerinas and did not compete with them.
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Jul 04, 2020
A leading historian, he wrote and taught in defense of the French language and its heritage and against "globish English."
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Jul 04, 2020
In a photography show and auction Jamel Shabazz and others take an up-close look at Black culture and community.
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Jul 04, 2020
See the Mona Lisa, up your baking skills and get some answers to your salacious questions about dinosaurs.
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Jul 04, 2020
These journeys of the imagination explore what it means to be human.
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Jul 04, 2020
At Miss Muslimah USA, a pageant for young Muslim women, the complexity of modesty is on full display.
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Jul 04, 2020
Watching through windshields. Audiences of two. An elbow bump instead of a kiss. Theaters across the country find novel ways to play in a pandemic.
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Jul 04, 2020
Since their time in the Broadway show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and company have gone on to movies, TV and theater.
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Jul 04, 2020
Since their time in the Broadway show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and company have gone on to movies, TV and theater.
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Jul 04, 2020
In "Burning Down the House," Julian Zelizer shows how Gingrich was able to exploit the profound developments since Watergate to his lasting advantage.
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Jul 04, 2020
Werner Herzog's documentary explores Japan's rent-a-family industry. And fireworks displays will be broadcast from New York and Washington.
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Jul 03, 2020
A longtime sportswriter, he collaborated with Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson and Mike Piazza on their autobiographies. "I was there," he once said, "to make the subject more literary."
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Jul 03, 2020
The Mississippi flag is finally coming down.
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Jul 03, 2020
His coming-of-age novel "Bless Me, Ultima" reframed the way many in New Mexico viewed their own history, even as school districts tried to ban it.
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Jul 03, 2020
Beginning in the industry as a child actress, Ms. Khan went on to choreograph some of the most memorable performances of the 1980s and '90s.
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Jul 03, 2020
The tragic history of "I can't breathe." Why you can have a kid or a job right now, not both. How Brooklyn Drill went global. Farewell, Carl Reiner. And more.
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Jul 03, 2020
Listen to how artists have explored what it means — and could mean — to be American.
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Jul 03, 2020
For nearly two decades, she chronicled communities on the edge of society in elegant photographs that drew comparisons to the work of Jacob Riis.
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Jul 03, 2020
Even in lockdown, it's still hard to cut a streaming deal for a professional show. Here what viewers can expect, for now.
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Jul 03, 2020
This Independence Day, 70 artists are having messages of solidarity and defiance typed in the sky to highlight the plight of immigrants held in detention centers.
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Jul 03, 2020
Hear tracks by Blackpink, Jorja Smith, Washed Out and others.
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Jul 03, 2020
Disney is streaming a live-capture film of "Hamilton." It's just the latest chapter in a deepening relationship between the company and the musical's creator.
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Jul 03, 2020
Yale has acquired a renowned private collection relating to the abolitionist and orator, including rarely seen family scrapbooks that offer a window onto his complicated private life.
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Jul 03, 2020
It waved to us again and again: Know your place.
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Jul 03, 2020
It's a bit like "The Great British Baking Show," but in this series, the goal is to build dream homes, not frangipani and iced buns. It's also deeply human.
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Jul 03, 2020
The rapper and actor has a real name: Colson Baker. And he's finding his voice during the lockdown.
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Jul 03, 2020
Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings.
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Jul 03, 2020
The latest movie from Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne is on Criterion Channel. And a film of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" debuts on Disney .
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Jul 02, 2020
After nearly a quarter of all employees signed onto a letter accusing executives of racism and mismanagement, the museum has hired a lawyer to start an independent investigation.
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Jul 02, 2020
Our critics and readers make a return trip to the movie that kicked off a franchise. Does the blockbuster hold up in a summer without one?
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Jul 02, 2020
Check out a trippy, philosophical new cartoon, or take a fresh look at an old classic.
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Jul 02, 2020
A graphic review of Karl Polanyi's seminal work "The Great Transformation," which charted the social effects of capitalism.
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Jul 02, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 02, 2020
"Let Them Eat Tweets," by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, examines the ways in which the wealthy control the Republican Party.
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Jul 02, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 02, 2020
Like his famous older sibling, he played the piano and sang. But he used his music to insist, "I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me."
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Jul 02, 2020
Critically panned, the steamy Polish flick is a streaming success thanks to TikTok teenagers and curious fans. But there's also a growing backlash from those who say it glorifies rape culture.
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Jul 02, 2020
A longtime host of both "Today" and "20/20," he held the Guinness-certified record for most total hours on commercial network television for many years.
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Jul 02, 2020
Two rising stars on the app have amassed a huge audience by playing along with their followers' fantasy of romance.
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Jul 02, 2020
Mass MoCA, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Clark Art Institute will reopen this month, with programming changes and social-distancing measures.
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Jul 02, 2020
Keleketla! is a studio assemblage of musicians from four continents, creating thoroughly hybridized music with African voices up front.
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Jul 02, 2020
Richard Nelson's fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
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Jul 02, 2020
Following his Palme d'Or-winning "Shoplifters," the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda visits some of the glories of France.
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Jul 02, 2020
Our culture writers offer suggestions for celebrating Independence Day, and what to watch or listen to without leaving your home.
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Jul 02, 2020
Linda Goode Bryant discusses her career — from art dealer to urban farmer — with the artist Senga Nengudi.
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Jul 02, 2020
Nancy Baker Cahill uses augmented reality to explore the meaning of historical sites from the Rockaways in New York to Selma, Ala. Is public art embellishing our heritage, or defacing it?
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Jul 02, 2020
Viewed now in the midst of a pandemic, these archival Independence Day photographs — showing large crowds, close contact and communal celebrations — elicit an added measure of nostalgia.
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Jul 02, 2020
With a fresh voice and a winning cast, this Netflix update of the popular book series is the throwback that 2020 needs.
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Jul 02, 2020
"She Kills Monsters" is hugely popular in high schools and colleges. Even in lockdown, performers have found novel ways to make the battles come alive.
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