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News
Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear)
These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern…
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Style
Margaret Atwood Offers Her Vision of Utopia
Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s foremost writers of dystopian literature, having imagined such worst-case horrors as a theocracy…
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News
Gudetama, the Incredible, Miserable Egg
Sanrio’s world-weary character stars in a new Netflix series.
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Books
Review: ‘The Far Country’ Brings a Neglected History Closer
Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
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World
For Sunak, Like Biden, Dullness Could Be a Secret Weapon
For all their differences, President Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain share a challenge: operating in the wake…
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World
Netanyahu’s New Government Roils Israel Before It’s Even Formed
Efforts by Benjamin Netanyahu to appease his extremist coalition partners have been met with a backlash from Israeli liberals.
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World
Georgia Runoff: What a Walker or Warnock Victory Would Look Like
Surprises are always possible, but there seem to be few reasons to think Herschel Walker can improve upon his showing…
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Books
The Best Crime Novels of 2022
Our columnist, who’s read dozens of books this year, selects her favorites.
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Books
Is This Elephant Bothering You?
“Pests,” by Bethany Brookshire, examines our relationships with the animals we’ve come to loathe. It’s not just the usual suspects…
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Sports
A Beer Run in Qatar, and an Oasis That Isn’t Open to All
At the only government-sanctioned store selling alcohol during the World Cup, strict rules keep it out of reach for most…