Love
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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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World
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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Books
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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Books
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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Books
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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Books
Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
In romances — whether on the page or the screen — we want characters with chemistry, who spark and combust from the meet-cute to the inevitable seduction to the dawning realization that despite their wisest intentions, characters have fallen ...
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A Russian Journalist’s Love Letter to Her People
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often struggling, people in far-flung parts of the country.
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Newyork
My (Liberating) Secret Shame
I may be unable to have children, and I am relieved.
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Books
In ‘Big Trip,’ an Exiled Russian Director Asks: What Makes Us Human?
Dmitry Krymov’s two shows at La MaMa thrillingly stress the porosity of the line between life and storytelling.
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Newyork
Out of the Closet and Into the Garden
My Jamaican mother’s hopes for life in America did not include me being gay. So how would I ever bloom?