Arts
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To Seize the Fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector Dance
They’ve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance studio in downtown Manhattan, feeling their way through a dance passage. Moving close together, they enter and exit each other’s ...
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‘BS High’ Review: Greed and Football
A saga of high school football players taken advantage of by a dubious start-up is played for entertainment in this flawed documentary.
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What Spatial Audio Can and Cannot Do for Classical Music
Immersive audio formats, while newer for pop, have been used by composers for decades. But not all works call for spatial treatment.
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John Oliver and Seth Meyers: Looser but Less Pointed Onstage
With the strike silencing their late-night shows, the comics showed different sides of themselves in front of a friendly crowd in New York.
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‘The Outsiders’ Heads to Broadway, With Angelina Jolie as a Producer
A new musical adaptation of a popular novel by S.E. Hinton will begin performances in March.
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A Languid, Atmospheric Thriller Steeped in Postwar Melancholy
THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR, by Christine Mangan “Where large sums of money are concerned,” Agatha Christie once wisely observed, “it is advisable to trust nobody.” She also famously said, “Time is the best killer,” though the slippery slow burn of ...
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6 Great Heart-Thumping, Brain-Bending Young Adult Mystery Novels
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the author of The Inheritance Games trilogy and other young adult novels, recommends some of her favorite Y.A. mysteries.
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Sexual Abuse Suits Against Michael Jackson’s Companies Are Revived
An appeals court in California determined that lawsuits by two men who say Jackson molested them as children can proceed.
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Want to Hear Michael Oher’s Version? Read His Books.
The former N.F.L. player and inspiration for “The Blind Side” just launched a legal battle with the family he once considered his own. Two memoirs tell Oher’s side of the story.
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Audiobook of the Week: ‘The Ghost Club’
Deciding what audiobook to listen to requires its own special calculus, related to but distinct from the factors we consider when picking a book off a shelf. From the Book Review’s own endless listening, we will select and review a different title ...