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Books
Sparks Fly in Spicy New Romances
Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with royal lineage and awe-inspiring powers, but sometimes we find books that take the ground-up view rather than the crown-down one. Rebecca Ross’s DIVINE RIVALS (Wednesday Books, 357 pp., $18.99) and ...
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World
Friends From Childhood. Brothers in War.
Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Great ReadFriends From Childhood. Brothers in War. Share full articleBy Megan Specia Megan Specia and several New York Times photographers spent a year following the paths of a group of friends from Lviv as they ...
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Books
Cleveland Museum Sues to Block Seizure of Its ‘Marcus Aurelius’ Bronze
The lawsuit seeks to prevent the Manhattan district attorney’s office from taking the headless statue, which investigators say was looted from Turkey and depicts the Roman emperor.
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Books
Jhumpa Lahiri Translates the Varieties of Strangeness
In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.
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News
Roman and Kendall Roy’s ‘Succession’ Pads Hit the Market — for Real
Brokers are hoping the mystique of the fictional Roy family can help sell the multimillion dollar homes.
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World
Pope Benedict’s Life in Pictures
A soft-spoken intellectual and scholar, Benedict XVI was the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics for eight years, sandwiched between the charismatic Pope (now Saint) John Paul II (1978-2005), one of the longest papacies in history, and ...