Books
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‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues
Brendan Fraser plays an obese writing instructor reckoning with grief and regret in Darren Aronofsky’s latest film.
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power
This quirky classic has been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into an ill-conceived metaphor about…
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward pursue a bittersweet workplace romance in Sam Mendes’s look back at Britain in the early…
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An Ailey Dancer’s Career Blooms, at the Company and Beyond
At 30, Jacquelin Harris is expanding her repertoire, with role debuts in store for the latest Alvin Ailey American Dance…
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals
Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz…
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What We Learned From ‘Harry and Meghan,’ the Netflix Series
In the first episodes, the couple describe ongoing harassment from the media and wanting to continue Princess Diana’s legacy.
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Best Songs of 2022
Seventy-two tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year.
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Best Art of 2022
This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art,…
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A Trans Icon of the 20th Century Revived by Trans Stars of the 21st Century
The documentary “Framing Agnes” uses transcripts to tell the story of an anonymous woman who became the subject of a…
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Review: In ‘Orlando,’ Emma Corrin Straddles Genders and Centuries
In a freewheeling London adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, Corrin plays a character whose emotions are as fluid as…