Arts
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Grand Jury Will Consider New Manslaughter Case Against Alec Baldwin
Prosecutors had submitted the gun used in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” film set for further analysis after dismissing a criminal case against Mr. Baldwin in April.
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Britney Spears Writes of Having Abortion While Dating Justin Timberlake
The pop star included the detail in her upcoming memoir “The Woman in Me”; Timberlake did not immediately respond.
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‘The Insurrectionist Next Door’ Review: Getting Personal
In her latest film, the documentarian Alexandra Pelosi has disarming chats with people who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Architecture’s ‘Young Savior’ Rebooted After the Bottom Fell Out
Joshua Ramus really doesn’t want to talk about Rem Koolhaas anymore. Seventeen years ago Ramus, then 36, a diligent, buzz-cut partner at the New York office of Koolhaas’s famed architecture firm, OMA, bought out Koolhaas, took the helm of the staff ...
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To Restore Order, a Troubled Dance Company Calls on a Storyteller
Christian Spuck, a choreographer of narrative ballets, has taken the helm at the Staatsballett Berlin after years of strife for the troupe. Can he turn it around?
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Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?
In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be either a revelatory metaphysical journey or a bout of male existential angst.
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A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.
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Did the C.I.A. Kill Patrice Lumumba?
In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians.
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A Russian Journalist’s Love Letter to Her People
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often struggling, people in far-flung parts of the country.
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A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.