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Italy’s Coast Guard Rescues Hundreds of Migrants in ‘Chaotic’ Few Days at Sea
About 2,000 people have been rescued since Friday, and ships were dispatched to help boats carrying 1,200 more on Monday as disquiet grows about the high numbers undertaking the risky crossing.
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Arts
The Voices of Unsung Black Poets, Revived and Amplified
“Minor Notes, Volume 1” is the first book in a series meant to recover writers from deep pockets of American history.
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Arts
For This American, Self-Discovery Begins at a Ukrainian Call Center
“Calling Ukraine,” a novel by Johannes Lichtman, combines an expatriate story and an office satire.
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Arts
For a Literary Man’s Man, Mother Knew Best
In his new memoir, “Irma,” Terry McDonell, a magazine editor during the golden age of magazines, gives credit to Mom (and Hemingway).
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World
With Dueling Rulings, Abortion Pill Cases Appear Headed to the Supreme Court
One federal judge said the F.D.A.’s approval of the drug mifepristone was invalid, while another federal judge ordered the agency to keep the pill available. The legal fallout is just beginning.
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Arts
Susanna Hoffs Has a Dollar Bill Signed by William S. Burroughs
What books are on your night stand? “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius,” by Nick Hornby. “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders. “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “Giovanni’s Room,” by James Baldwin ...
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Magazine
Gary Indiana Doesn’t Travel in Any Circles
The author of “Rent Boy” and “Do Everything in the Dark” reflects on a life of writing and art.
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World
Wisconsin’s High-Stakes Supreme Court Race: What to Watch
The election for a swing seat on the court is likely to determine whether abortion remains illegal in Wisconsin, as well as the future of the state’s heavily gerrymandered political maps.
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World
A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. So I Watched It.
This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, because of a complaint lodged by a single ...
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World
What Does It Mean to Be Ready to Die?
Nine years ago, near the end of my residency training, I sat across from a patient, wondering whether he’d accepted that he was dying. He was in his 60s, an artist with sinewy arms and serene eyes, someone I’d come to know well over the past three ...