Books
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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway
What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for…
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Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce
With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without…
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To Seize the Fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector Dance
They’ve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance…
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‘BS High’ Review: Greed and Football
A saga of high school football players taken advantage of by a dubious start-up is played for entertainment in this…
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What Spatial Audio Can and Cannot Do for Classical Music
Immersive audio formats, while newer for pop, have been used by composers for decades. But not all works call for…
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John Oliver and Seth Meyers: Looser but Less Pointed Onstage
With the strike silencing their late-night shows, the comics showed different sides of themselves in front of a friendly crowd…
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‘The Outsiders’ Heads to Broadway, With Angelina Jolie as a Producer
A new musical adaptation of a popular novel by S.E. Hinton will begin performances in March.
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A Languid, Atmospheric Thriller Steeped in Postwar Melancholy
THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR, by Christine Mangan “Where large sums of money are concerned,” Agatha Christie once wisely observed, “it is…
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6 Great Heart-Thumping, Brain-Bending Young Adult Mystery Novels
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the author of The Inheritance Games trilogy and other young adult novels, recommends some of her favorite…
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Sexual Abuse Suits Against Michael Jackson’s Companies Are Revived
An appeals court in California determined that lawsuits by two men who say Jackson molested them as children can proceed.