Arts
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‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon
Bowen Yang played the balloon wreckage as it floated off the Eastern Seaboard, in a wide-ranging episode hosted by Pedro Pascal.
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What Will It Take to Trust M. Night Shyamalan?
The director, whose latest is “Knock at the Cabin,” has been working to regain audience faith, one B-movie at a time.
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Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets
Herbert Blomstedt introduced the New York Philharmonic to a piece he premiered in Stockholm 59 years ago.
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Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance
“Memphis Jookin’: The Show,” which presents jookin “in the world it comes from,” is sincere entertainment, packed with talent and heart.
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Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 12 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Morgan Wallen, Yves Tumor, Lankum and others.
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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a pandemic-inspired killer, a trance-induced massacre and a bloodthirsty little boy.
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What Is Literary Criticism For?
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.
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How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema
Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three recent movies — “Close,” “Babylon” and “The Woman King” — pulled it off.
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The 19th-Century Cult That Gave Rise to an Incel Assassin
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.
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Songwriter or Star? The-Dream, Muni Long and Two Paths to the Grammys.
Ahead of the first-ever Grammy Award for songwriter of the year, two musicians who have been both headliners and behind-the-scenes cogs trace their unique journeys to recognition.