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They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We?
Listen to This Article Audio Recording by AudmThe crime-scene van was parked next to the black Honda Civic already identified as belonging to the shooter, the yellow tape marking its perimeter juddering in a helicopter gust. Earlier that morning ...
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‘I Raised Them!’ Nina Ananiashvili’s Georgian Dancers Come to Town
Nina Ananiashvili, a former star of American Ballet Theater, is no tourist to New York City, but she’ll have fun playing one when the State Ballet of Georgia comes to town. As part of a short American tour, the company, led by Ananiashvili, will ...
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Wherever These Surgeries Went, the Camera Did, Too
In a radical experiment, the filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor sought a scalpel-level view of operations in French hospitals.
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Charles Frazier Wants You to Wait Before Reading the Classics
What books are on your night stand? “In the Café of Lost Youth,” by Patrick Modiano; “Sleepless Nights,”by Elizabeth Hardwick; “The Philosophy of Modern Song,”by Bob Dylan; “Poems of the Late T’ang,”translated by A.C. Graham. What’s the last great ...
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R.I.P., W.F.H.? Not So Fast.
When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the U.S. economy three years ago, workers and their employers adjusted astonishingly well to what came to be called W.F.H. — work from home. Workers liked working from home for the most part, but many employers ...
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Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’
A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
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Gary Indiana Doesn’t Travel in Any Circles
The author of “Rent Boy” and “Do Everything in the Dark” reflects on a life of writing and art.
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A Beauty Brand That Turns Self-Improvement Into a Nightmare
In Ling Ling Huang’s debut, “Natural Beauty,” a woman discovers that there are horrors lurking beneath the surface of a glamorous company.
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Fear of an A.I. Pundit
Nick Bostrom’s 2014 book, “Superintelligence,” a crucial text for the community of worriers about the risks of artificial intelligence, begins with a fable: A tribe of sparrows, weary of a marginal existence, becomes convinced that everything would ...
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An Open Letter to Governor Lee on the Slaughter of Our Children
NASHVILLE — Dear Gov. Bill Lee, For more than 24 hours, I waited for you to speak to the people of Tennessee about the massacre of Nashville schoolchildren and the adults who gave their lives trying to keep them safe. These were your citizens. These ...