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World
Adapting ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ for TV, and the Blind
In a new Netflix mini-series, the two actresses playing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel’s protagonist, are blind, just like the character.
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News
For Bill Ford, ‘Every Negotiation Is a Roller Coaster’
As a 25-year-old junior executive at the car company that bears his last name, William Clay Ford Jr. had a bracing introduction to labor negotiations when a union official demanded that he stand up and vouch that he was made of the same stuff as his ...
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News
The Ruby Shakes Up Cacio e Pepe in the Former Lucky Strike Space
The Simone becomes Eulalie, a supper club opens in Le Petit Parisien and more restaurant news.
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Newyork
Roland Griffiths, Who Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics, Dies at 77
The drugs had been the third rail of scientific inquiry. But in a landmark study, he saw them as a legitimate way to help alleviate suffering and even to reach a mystical state.
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Newyork
Yohji Yamamoto Prefers the Side View
This sketch [from Yohji Yamamoto’s fall 1988 collection] (above) is a lie. It’s a woman, but she looks like a man. And in a way, that became my entire message. I’d always been a big fan [of the German choreographer Pina Bausch] because, in her work ...
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Books
A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.
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Newyork
Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We have failed. When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” and students at other elite universities blame Israel alone for the attack Hamas ...
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Newyork
‘Do Not Take Your Mezuzah off Your Door’
The Torah tells us that on the day God created humanity, God saw everything God created, and God saw that it was very good. The monstrosity of the attacks carried out on Oct. 7, on Shabbat, has been defined and compounded by Jews and Israelis not ...
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World
A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink
The planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble. The Amazon rainforest, where a fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is reeling from a powerful drought that shows no sign of abating. Likely made worse by global warming and deforestation, the ...
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Newyork
Piling Horror Upon Horror
Watching from afar as people race toward an abyss, I find it hard to know what to write except “no,” over and over. In the face of massacres that for Jews around the world brought back memories of genocide, the language of some Israeli leaders has ...