Books
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Review: Finding Community in ‘As You Like It’
The Forest of Arden is where you head when the city won’t hold you. When laws are unjust, when custom constricts, when institutions squeeze and ...
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John Adams, an American Master at 75
BERKELEY, Calif. — “I have to apologize,” the composer John Adams said as he approached his car. “The front seat was torn up by a bear.” Patches ...
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After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook?
Severed from the rest of New Haven by Metro-North tracks on one side and I-95 on the other, the Long Wharf Theater shares a patch of industrial ...
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‘Monarch’ Heralds a New Family Empire, This One With a Texas Twang
A few years ago, the writer Melissa London Hilfers was having lunch with her friend Gail Berman, the TV and movie producer. Berman mentioned that ...
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A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music
LENOX, Mass. — The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, during his half-century career in music, has led many performances of Beethoven’s Ninth ...
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Katie Gregson-MacLeod Sang About a ‘Complex’ Love. TikTok Responded.
If TikTok has made you cry sometime this month, it’s likely thanks to Katie Gregson-MacLeod. On Aug. 4, the 21-year-old Scottish singer ...
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How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Get Those Dogfight Scenes? Joseph Kosinski Explains.
The WhatsApp message arrived on May 10. “I got my call sign,” was all it read, signed “Strike.” And in the weeks that followed, leading up to the ...
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The ’90s Partisans Who Fueled the Rise of Grievance Conservatism
PARTISANSThe Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990sBy Nicole Hemmer358 pages. Basic Books. $32. Even for those of ...
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Laura Linney to Return to Broadway in New David Auburn Play
Laura Linney will return to Broadway next spring, in a new play by David Auburn about a friendship that arises between two women during America’s ...
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With ‘Tár,’ Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been?
Maybe Todd Field isn’t ready to reappear just yet. After launching his directing career with the auspicious one-two punch of “In the Bedroom ...