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Arts
Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2023
A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors and bureau chiefs describe their favorite reads of the year.
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Business
2023 in Retrospect: 59 Photographs That Defined the Year in Arts
Credit...Peter Fisher for The New York Times2023 in Retrospect: 59 Photographs That Defined the Year in Arts Deadheads, ballerinas and Mick Jagger: As 2023 winds down, revisit a memorable handful of the thousands of images commissioned by our photo ...
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World
Mongolians Are Circus Stars All Over the World, Except at Home
It’s cold as a walk-in refrigerator at the Mongolian Circus School, housed in a once proud edifice now on the verge of collapse with cracked walls, moldy ceilings and the stale smell of decades of cigarette smoke embedded into the venue’s wooden ...
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Health
N.Y. Health Dept. Is Looking Into Bellevue’s Weight-Loss Surgery Program
The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians during some bariatric surgeries.
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World
Income Inequality Has Been Transformed Globally
In 1974, the libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick famously defended inequality by offering a thought experiment involving Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine you lived in a society, he proposed, where the distribution of wealth had been orchestrated ...
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Travel
Downward Dogs and Giraffes Up Close: What’s New at Texas Hill Country Hotels
Driving west out of Austin toward Fredericksburg, the road narrows to one-lane blacktop, and the edges of the city’s suburbs gradually give way to a different kind of Texas, one of ranches, old wooden churches, farm stands and wineries. This is the ...
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Business
As Office Workers Make Their Return, So Does the Lowly Cubicle
Among office designers and architects, cubicles are rarely mentioned. The once-ubiquitous fixture, so popular in the 1980s and ’90s, has become vilified as a sign of the dehumanization of the work force. Design experts today say cubicles are a “hard ...
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Food
There’s No Christmas Lunch Like a Korean American Church Lunch
After-service meals have been long been key spaces for first-generation immigrants establishing themselves in the United States. But younger Koreans are finding less need for them.
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World
Swiftonomics, Kamala Harris and Decadent Real Estate: Your Questions, Answered.
Hosted by Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Have we reached peak Taylor Swift? Does the world need your bagel shop’s position on Israel ...
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World
Stories About Wonder, Fireworks and Vegemite
Twelve months of counterprogramming from the Australia bureau.