Arts
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The Most Important Eight Hours of Your Day? They Weren’t Always.
Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight…
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A Fitting — and Frightening — Homage to ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
A HAUNTING ON THE HILL, by Elizabeth Hand As Holly, the protagonist of Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill,”…
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Ferrante Before Ferrante
Elsa Morante’s propulsive 1940s saga of women’s lives, “Lies and Sorcery,” brings its penetrating insight to a new generation.
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The Deadly Red Tape of Israel’s Occupation in Palestine
In “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” Nathan Thrall untangles the political and personal story of a bus…
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‘Celebrate Jaap!’ the Philharmonic Says as a Maestro Departs
The final season of Jaap van Zweden’s brief tenure as music director in New York began with a new suite…
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When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Collide With Prime-Time TV
The Chiefs and the Jets are playing on “Sunday Night Football.” But many who tune in will be watching for…
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Impeachments, #MeToo, Trump: Running The Washington Post During a Decade of Turmoil
“Collision of Power,” Martin Baron’s memoir of his tenure as the paper’s executive editor, is a gripping chronicle of politics…
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Two Books Explore the Lives of Witches
In Allyson Stone’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.
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U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo
In the inaugural show at Sphere, a $2.3 billion venue, a band unafraid of pomp and spectacle was sometimes out-pomped…
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Conducting Lessons: How Bradley Cooper Became Leonard Bernstein
On a late-spring day in 2018, when the New York Philharmonic was deep in rehearsals of a Strauss symphony, an…