Books
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Matthew Barney’s Time Has Come Again
Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.
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The Triumphant Comeback of the Kamala Harris Meme
The same unflattering supercuts and Photoshop jobs once used to denigrate Harris have now been flipped into celebratory artifacts of her candidacy.
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‘Time Bandits’ Review: A Flatter Adventure
An adaptation of the 1981 film on Apple TV+ gives us time-traveling bandits of greater height and lesser amusement.
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‘Veep’ Is Re-elected
After news broke that President Biden would endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, the internet was rife with clips and memes from the show.
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Adultery, a Corpse Eaten by Alligators and a $1 Million Insurance Payout
A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman’s “Guilty Creatures.”
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When It Comes to a Bad Marriage, Whose Account Can You Trust?
The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso’s novel “Liars” may or may not be a reliable source about her monster of a husband.
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She Found Bounties in Small Towns, Local Talk and Everyday Life
The simple pleasures keep coming in this keenly observed collection by the Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart.
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King Arthur Is Dead. Long Live King Arthur!
THE BRIGHT SWORD: A Novel of King Arthur, by Lev Grossman King Arthur is dead. What now? With this question, Lev Grossman’s new novel, “The Bright Sword,” joins 1,400 years of storytelling and resoundingly earns its place among the best of Arthurian ...
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Colson Whitehead Looks Back at ‘The Underground Railroad’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen When we recently asked just over 500 writers and other literary experts and enthusiasts to offer their thoughts on the best works of the 21st century so far, we thought it would also be fun to ask ...
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An Undocumented Immigrant Admitted to the Elite World of Harvard
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s fiction debut, “Catalina,” brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.