Books
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What to Know About ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: A Guide to the Osage Murders
Martin Scorsese’s epic traces a real plot by white men to kill dozens of Native Americans who held oil rights…
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An Indian Artist Questions Borders and the Limits on Free Speech
In hauntingly spare artworks, Shilpa Gupta grapples with questions of censorship, born from her own experiences with authoritarian limits.
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After 47 Years, the Emerson Quartet Has One More Weekend
The group, famed for its rich vitality, easy power and a vast repertory that it recorded prolifically and toured tirelessly,…
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Review: Ballet Theater Revisits Its Past With a Hit and Two Misses
Susan Jaffe presents her first New York season as American Ballet Theater’s leader, starting with a program of Alexei Ratmansky,…
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A Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Hits the Market
A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage is on sale at Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to…
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A ‘Matrix’-Inspired Spectacle, With Little to Challenge the Mind
A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building’s possibilities, but doesn’t push…
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‘I Had Been Exploited:’ Takeaways From Britney Spears’s Memoir
The pop star’s new book, “The Woman in Me,” recounts her rise to fame, struggles that became tabloid fodder and…
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The Twilight of Mitt Romney
ROMNEY: A Reckoning, by McKay Coppins “For most of his life, he has nursed a morbid fascination with his own…
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When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly
HUNTING THE FALCON: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe, by John Guy and Julia Fox Anne…
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Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys’ Club — With Spycraft
In “The Sisterhood,” the journalist Liza Mundy chronicles the frustrations, triumphs and compromises of the women of the C.I.A.