Arts
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‘The Exorcism’ Review: Losing Faith
Russell Crowe stars as an actor playing an exorcist who’s battling his own demons.
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‘Janet Planet’ Review: A Sticky Summer Full of Small Dramas
Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.
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She Walked in Beauty: The Subtle Seductiveness of Anouk Aimée
The French star created characters who could be fantasies or enigmas, but they always intrigued, even when she was miscast in Hollywood.
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Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career.
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What Can’t You Say These Days?
THE INDISPENSABLE RIGHT: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, by Jonathan Turley Conservative voices are being silenced. We know this because conservative voices are telling us so, insistently, on social media and cable news programs, in speeches by ...
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Writers, the Wretched of the Earth
In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.
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How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
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You Talkin’ Like Him? A Convention Lets De Niro Fans Get In on the Act.
Participants at De Niro Con in Tribeca could talk like Travis Bickle, shadowbox like Jake LaMotta or get a tattoo like Max Cady. Yes, a real tattoo.
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Faith, Meet Futility
A new tier of knights, monsters and freaks often exceeds the most demanding late-game adversaries of Elden Ring. Belief in yourself will be stretched to its limit.
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How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”