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Season 2 Update: Five Years Later
After nearly twenty-three years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’s reporting. Now he’s back in Winona,…
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The Unexpected Sweetness of Bill and Ted’s “Waiting for Godot”
The jokes started before rehearsals did. “Waiting for Bill and Ted”; “Bill and Ted’s Existentialist Adventure”; “Party On, Godot!” How…
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Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
Stein’s authority as an arbiter was bolstered by an ambiguously gendered seduction. Genius, she believed, was a masculine trait, and she…
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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
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Amazon cuts 110 jobs in reorganization of Wondery audio division
Amazon on Monday said it is cutting 110 roles from its audio division Wondery as part of a restructuring effort. The cuts reflect an…
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L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids
In early July, while shopping at a farmers’ market on the east side of Los Angeles, where I live, I bought a few packages of raw chicken…
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Haim Sets Off on a Rampage
This month, Haim—a three-piece rock band from Los Angeles, featuring the sisters Danielle, Alana, and Este Haim—will release “I Quit,” its…
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The Portland Bar That Screens Only Women’s Sports
When Jenny Nguyen was in her twenties, working as a chef in her home town of Portland, Oregon, she became a regular at pickup basketball…
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The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures
On June 26, 2020, three months after the coronavirus pandemic had seized the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which…
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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our…
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For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out
“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November,…
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The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl
“I don’t write a whole lot of love songs,” Megan Moroney said last month, onstage at Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately, that’s not…
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Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems
“The future of writing is the universe within,” the composer and lyricist Adam Guettel told an interviewer, in 2001. It had been five…
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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
In 1857, Sam stumbled into the job that would shape his identity. Aboard a southbound steamboat—part of some half-baked scheme involving…
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Francis, the TV Pope, Takes His Final Journey
Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament:…
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A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings
The restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an alumnus…
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The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support…
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“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,”…
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The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York,…
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Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the…
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Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak
The important thing to know about Danny & Coop’s, the new Philly-cheesesteak restaurant in the East Village co-owned by Bradley Cooper, of…
Culture
Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself
“Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s opinion,…
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
You almost forget that Elisabeth Moss can smile. The lead actor on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now in its sixth and final season, spent…