Arts
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Banana Yoshimoto Wants Books to Give Her Insomnia
What books are on your night stand? I read most of my books on the Kindle, but as far as paper books go, I have: “Elemental: Critical Essays,” by Keijiro Suga; Monkey, a literary journal edited by Motoyuki Shibata; and “Kuishinbo no Onayami Sodan ...
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Robert Glasper Leans Into the Drama
Mounting his fifth annual residency at the Blue Note (after a viral beef at the Grammys), the pianist, producer and composer is hungry for a challenge.
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An Experimental Label’s Music Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start.
Listen to 15 streaming highlights from the vast catalog of Tzadik, the imprint founded by John Zorn.
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Solo Plays This Fall: Patrick Page, Isabelle Adjani and More
For theatergoers who love uncrowded stages, the coming months bring a range of works, from musical comedies to Shakespearean dramas.
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‘Fair Play’ Review: Risky Bonds
One couple can’t achieve work-life balance is in this impeccable debut feature from Chloe Domont.
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‘Too Young for Me!’: A Senior Center Watches ‘The Golden Bachelor’
The commentary was sharp and the drinks were virgin at a watch party for the new dating show featuring singles between 60 and 75.
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Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern
On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal of “The Hunt,” a new opera by Kate Soper. One soprano had a ukulele stored offstage. Another had a violin close at hand. And a third, placed ...
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Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work.
Throughout a decades-long career, the playwright and author Jon Fosse has inspired comparisons to Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett and even George Harrison from the Beatles. One of his English translators, Damion Searls, writing in The Paris Review in ...
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What Can Writers Learn From Turtles?
While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.
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How a Chain-Snatching and a Vegas Beatdown Led to Tupac’s Murder
Grand jury witness testimony describes how hyperlocal clashes between warring gang factions spilled into a fatal dispute that would alter the course of hip-hop history.