Arts
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What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything
Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source material, Don DeLillo’s novel from almost 40 years ago. When I reread it, I was struck by how hilarious it still is, how accurate to ...
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10 New Books Coming in January
Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor The fates of three people in New Delhi converge in this high-octane new novel. Sunny, the heir to a powerful family, strives to eclipses his father and brings about all manner of ruin. Ajay, who was born to a poor ...
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‘Terrorist’ — to Whom?
BROTHERLESS NIGHT, by V. V. Ganeshananthan The word “terrorist,” or some variation thereof, shows up six times on the opening page of V.V. Ganeshananthan’s “Brotherless Night.” To be bludgeoned this way by such a poisoned piece of political taxonomy ...
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Librarians Are Meeting Younger Readers Where They Are: TikTok
The pandemic hurt children’s reading skills. Librarians are doing what it takes to connect them with books — including dance routines.
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For Kashana Cauley, Doomsday Isn’t So Hypothetical
THE SURVIVALISTS, by Kashana Cauley Few demographics illustrate the global anxieties of our era better than New Yorkers, who make monumental sacrifices just to hold onto cruddy housing. The perception of scarcity that haunts the American psyche in ...
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This Diet App Sends a Goblin to Eviscerate Your Kitchen
Rachel Harrison’s feminist horror novels are some of the most original and entertaining out there, and her collection of stories, BAD DOLLS (Berkley, ebook, $2.99), is right up there with her longer works. Filled with women on the cusp of change — a ...
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Woman Accuses Steven Tyler of Sexually Assaulting Her in the 1970s
In a lawsuit filed under California’s Child Victims Act, the woman says she met the Aerosmith frontman when she was 16.
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Woman Accuses Steven Tyler of Sexually Assaulting Her in the 1970s
In a lawsuit filed under California’s Child Victims Act, the woman says she met the Aerosmith frontman when she was 16.
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Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits the world of “Avatar.”
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Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself
Giancarlo Esposito is thinking about robbery. “Have you ever walked into a bank and thought, ‘There’s all this money here’?” he asked recently. “And there’s the door, and you see a sweet young teller. You know she’s green. What if I just went and ...