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We Thought We Had Spotted an Exotic Bloom. It Was the Vividly Colored Remains of a Soda Bottle.
It is springtime, and I want to turn to thoughts of love. In my case, love of this world, love of nature, love of our life in and as part of it. How I wish we all still loved that way. New York City’s winter leaf cover has been blown away and stuffed ...
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Review: Looking for Love With Burt Bacharach, and Finding a Prayer
Mark Morris’s “The Look of Love” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is uneven, but you can’t fight its swing.
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‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ Remains Hard to Forget
Michel Gondry’s surreal love story stunned audiences in 2004, and some of its sentiments are all the more relevant in the social media age.
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These Oscar Snubs Still Rile Up Readers
You can’t forgive the Academy for passing up “Brokeback Mountain” or omitting Amy Adams in “Arrival,” among other oversights that still sting.
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The Essential James Baldwin
James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago, just two years before his death in 1987. Yet his writing is as imperative as ever. He wrote with the kind of moral vision that was as ...
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Movie? Music Video? Documentary? Explaining Jennifer Lopez’s New Project.
Yes, Ben Affleck is in it, as are many of J. Lo’s famous friends. Here’s what to know about “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.”
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No Deposits This Year at Love Bank, a Museum of Affection Hit by Fire
Efforts are underway to restore the Love Bank museum in Slovakia, which celebrates the “world’s longest love poem” and rents tiny boxes to house romantic keepsakes.
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A Tale of Midlife Love With a Bombshell Ending
In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still married. What now?
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Common Credits Ralph Ellison for Pointing Him Toward Music
What books are on your night stand? The Bible, “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde,” edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, and “The Tongue — A Creative Force” by Charles Capps. “The Tongue” is a spiritual book based on Bible scriptures and ...
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Waiting in the Snow for a Phone Call, Mixing Memory and Desire
Cynthia Zarin’s first novel, “Inverno,” is a tale of a woman’s incurable longing and haunted past.
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