Arts
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A Clever, Joyless Look at the ‘Commonplace Horror’ of Marriage
Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”
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A Love Song to His Roots
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.
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Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are…
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For Zelda Williams, Daughter of Robin, a Goth Zombie Comedy Is Cathartic
As the director of “Lisa Frankenstein,” she embraced a tale in which no one was concerned whether grief was palatable…
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Broadway’s Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life
Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.
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Jaap van Zweden Bids Farewell, and Other Classical Highlights
The Philharmonic’s maestro ends his tenure, Igor Levit comes to Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera takes a chance on…
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Review: Seeking Purpose Among the Dead in ‘Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance’
Dael Orlandersmith’s slender new solo play is a meditation on living that seems also like a curveball response to loss.
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Juliette Binoche: Everyone Should Make Films With Their Ex-Boyfriends
The star of “The Taste of Things” explains why working with her former romantic partner Benoît Magimel was freeing, and…
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How to Speak New York
LANGUAGE CITY: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, by Ross Perlin “Up on the sixth floor…
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The ‘Sad, Happy Life’ of Carson McCullers
A new biography chronicles this essential American writer’s complicated love life, celebrated career and singular talents.