Arts
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What’s in a Name? The Battle of Baby T. Rex and Nanotyrannus.
A dinosaur fossil for sale in London embodies one of the most heated debates in paleontology.
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Unfurling the Unusual Costumes of ‘Poor Things’
The designer Holly Waddington breaks down how Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter evolves onscreen, from her childish knickers to her cage-like…
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16th-Century Beauty Secrets, Revealed
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and…
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The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust
When the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sat down for his profanity-laced interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit in…
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Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?
This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.
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Review: The Met’s New ‘Carmen’ Trades Castanets for Cutoffs
Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.
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America Ferrera and the ‘Barbie’ Monologue We All Talked About
Listing some of the many perils of womanhood in a still patriarchal society, the monologue that the actress America Ferrera…
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Emily Blunt Doesn’t Care if Her ‘Oppenheimer’ Character Is Likable
As the brilliant but flawed Kitty Oppenheimer, the actress plays a woman who had “extraordinary qualities, as well as ones…
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What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2024
“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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With Tom Wilkinson, Would You Get a Time Bomb or a Warm Hug?
In his performances in “Michael Clayton” and other films, he brought an element of danger and uncertainty that kept us…