Arts
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Stream These 8 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in February
A handful of great titles are leaving the service for U.S. subscribers soon, including a bona fide comedy classic. See…
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Being Edward Hopper
It’s no longer enough to like our favorite artists’ works. By putting on Hopper’s fedora, Picasso’s striped shirt, Warhol’s wig…
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SZA’s ‘SOS’ Holds Strong With Seven Weeks at No. 1
The R&B star’s “SOS” has racked up more than 1.4 billion streams and had the equivalent of 1.1 million sales…
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‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day
This week’s episode, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, stepped away from the main action, offering a melancholy vignette about…
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A Quarter-Life Crisis Handled With Grace and Guts
MAAME, by Jessica George You can get a sense of Maddie Wright’s life from her Google searches, which pop up…
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Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet.
Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation…
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In These Stories, Everyone Wants to Be Somewhere Else
The characters in “The Faraway World” seek connection in a disconnected world. Patricia Engel provides it in her own clever…
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New York City and Its Discontents, in 3 New Books
Some of the most memorable fiction about sports centers on elite athletes with a penchant for the philosophical. They’re the…
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Demon Dolls, Lonely Dolls and Sex Dolls
An editor recommends old and new books.
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‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for…