Books
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Searching for Leonardo da Vinci in ‘Leonardo’
Leonardo da Vinci discovered how to capture life in his drawings. And he found new ways to topple a castle. But the one thing he could never come ...
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National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $31.5 Million in Grants
A PBS documentary on the 400-year history of Shakespeare’s plays, a New York Public Library summer program for educators on efforts to secure ...
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The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates
Two years ago Salman Rushdie joined prominent cultural figures signing an open letter decrying an increasingly “intolerant climate” and warning ...
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A Swarm of 13-Year-Olds Took a Broadway Stage. What Could Go Wrong?
It’s one thing to wrangle a few Von Trapp kids. Some Matildas. A Gavroche or two. But a baker’s dozen of newly minted teenagers, raging hormones ...
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Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily
Raven Chacon wasn’t sure he should accept the commission that would soon earn him the Pulitzer Prize for music. A Milwaukee ensemble had asked ...
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Bad Bunny Beats YoungBoy Never Broke Again in a Tight Race for No. 1
Bad Bunny reclaims No. 1 on the Billboard album chart by the thinnest of margins this week, as the Puerto Rican superstar’s three-month-old album ...
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You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star.
“The deeper you go, the better you feel. The deeper you go, the better you feel.” Last month, an hour before midnight at the Improv Asylum’s ...
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For Christopher Walken and John Turturro, ‘Severance’ Is a Workplace Romance
Voting is underway for the 74th Primetime Emmys, and this week we’re talking to several acting nominees. The awards will be presented on Sept. 12 ...
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What’s on TV This Week: ‘House of the Dragon’ and U.S. Gymnastic Championships
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV ...
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At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution
SALZBURG, Austria — The premiere of a new production of Janacek’s opera “Kat’a Kabanova” had just ended at the Salzburg Festival here last week ...