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4 Documentaries That Explore How Families Cope With Dementia
In “Little Empty Boxes” and other films, the heartbreak of memory loss is intertwined with deeper cultural implications.
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The Poems That Taught Me How to Love
Lessons from the Chilean poet’s mind-bending verse.
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Alain Delon at His Very Best: Ravishing, Yes, but Also Destabilizing
The French star is the subject of a series at Film Forum focusing on movies from the ’60s and ’70s, when he became an international sensation.
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Newyork
The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers
Nobody writes poems about middle managers. Nobody gets too romantic about the person who runs a department at a company, or supervises a construction crew, or serves as principal at a school, manager at a restaurant or deacon at a church. But I’ve ...
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Newyork
The Perilous Existence of a Hamptons Day Laborer
Early in the evening of Dec. 30, Julio Florencio Teo Gomez, a carpenter from Guatemala City who had shifted around different living situations on Long Island for more than a decade, went looking for money he was owed for a job he had completed before ...
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The Era of Klaus Mäkelä, Conducting Phenom, Begins in Chicago
On Thursday, the richly talented 28-year-old maestro led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time since being named its next music director.
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US
New Senate Leadership Tussle Is a Throwback to the Old Days
Current Senate leaders haven’t had to fight too hard for their jobs, but Republicans now face a real contest to replace Mitch McConnell.
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Newyork
There Is No Easy Way to Go Public About Cancer
There is a moment for patients after we deliver the news of a frightening diagnosis, after they have taken in the realities we have laid before them, when they realize that there is one more tremendous hurdle ahead: to share that news with others ...
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Science
Where the Wild Things Went During the Pandemic
A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.
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Newyork
On the Wild Intoxications of Spring
I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming on our metal chimney, the week of budburst for our red maple sapling and our young red mulberries. At our house, these are the most reliable ...
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