Arts
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Emcee Squared: Joel Grey and Eddie Redmayne on ‘Cabaret’
Eddie Redmayne had never seen “Cabaret” when, as a 15-year-old student at Eton, he was first cast as the Emcee,…
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The Power of the ‘Planet of the Apes’
Why is this long-running film series so gripping and effective? Because it doesn’t monkey around.
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The Massacre America Forgot
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in…
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Betty Buckley Is Not Wedded to the Same Old Songs
The actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold…
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Hades II’s Eternal Pursuit of a Tantalizing Past
The video game sequel’s central character struggles to exhume the memory of her former life. Out of the pandemic, our…
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The Essential Alice Munro
Before I’d read Alice Munro — when my knowledge of her amounted to an oafish word cloud (“older woman,” “Canadian,”…
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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Podcasters as TV Heroes? We’re All Ears
Why have podcasters emerged as the rumpled protagonists of numerous television shows? We’ll discuss after the break.
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‘This Feels Like My “Doctor Who”’: Superfans Watch the New Season
Five British fans gathered to watch the premiere, wondering what a new Doctor and Disney+’s co-production would mean for their…
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Skewering Leftist Excess With Mockery and Sneers
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument…