Arts
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Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film
The format was initially a boon to amateurs. Now, with moviemaking gone digital, it’s the choice of auteurs like Darren Aronofsky and Kelly Reichardt.
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Subversive Novels Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize
Books by Maryse Condé and Eva Baltasar are among six nominees for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.
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A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making
Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form.
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12 Books You Should Be Reading Right Now
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
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For ‘Last Tango’ Actress, the Ugly Aftermath of Notoriety
In a troubling new memoir, Vanessa Schneider contends that the sexually explicit 1972 film exploited, and irrevocably hurt, her cousin.
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Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America
For her first book, “The Forgotten Girls,” Monica Potts returned to her hometown in Arkansas to figure out why so many of her peers were struggling.
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If You Could Have One Superpower …
In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device.
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Fans Gather as ‘Phantom’ Ends a Record Broadway Run
The final day of “The Phantom of the Opera” was marked by a combination of nostalgia and celebration at the Majestic Theater. It is closing on an unexpectedly high note.
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‘I Raised Them!’ Nina Ananiashvili’s Georgian Dancers Come to Town
Nina Ananiashvili, a former star of American Ballet Theater, is no tourist to New York City, but she’ll have fun playing one when the State Ballet of Georgia comes to town. As part of a short American tour, the company, led by Ananiashvili, will ...
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Wherever These Surgeries Went, the Camera Did, Too
In a radical experiment, the filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor sought a scalpel-level view of operations in French hospitals.