Arts
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Is This the Endgame for the Age of Heroes?
Audiences are showing fatigue when it comes to Marvel’s box office behemoths of recent years. Based on what they were…
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This Silly Museum About Crabs Has Serious Things to Say
The tiny Crab Museum in Margate, England, is gaining attention for its irreverent crustacean exhibits that also teach visitors about…
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Love a TV Show? Now You Can Live It.
Streamers and networks are creating live experiences to promote series like “Squid Game” and “Only Murders in the Building.” But…
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Two Watershed Shows About 1993 Help Make Sense of 2023
A blue-chip gallery asks, does the infamous Whitney Biennial or “The Theater of Refusal” measure up 30 years later, when…
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood
What’s the last great book you read? “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted. Also note:…
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The Novel That Sold 1,000 Copies a Week in 1903
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
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‘Sing in Me, Chatbot …’
The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. Those who don’t follow…
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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…
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The Fine Art of the Paperback Makeover
Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers…