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Arts
A Filmmaker’s Fraught Specialty: Women at Work and the Men Who Scare Them
Kitty Green’s movies, “The Assistant” and now “The Royal Hotel,” address gender dynamics in familiar, but menacing, environments.
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Arts
In Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel, Slavery Is Hell and Dante Is Our Guide
LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…
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World
The New Darling of the European Art Trade? Paris.
At the Paris+ fair and its satellites, there was plenty of talk about the art world’s center of gravity in…
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World
‘The Persian Version’ Director Has Always Lived in the In-Between
In her new film, Maryam Keshavarz finds both gravity and levity in the struggle to reconcile her Iranian heritage and…
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News
War in a Time of Informational Chaos
As a few bleak anecdotes illustrate, it is often impossible, in real time, for outsiders to know what is happening…
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News
The Deep Roots of Republican Dysfunction
The collapse of the House Republican majority into chaos is the clearest possible evidence that the party is off the…
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News
Why Egypt Can’t Solve Gaza’s Problems
In this period of intense Israeli military preparation following Hamas’s horrific terror attack on Oct. 7, and equally intense diplomatic…
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World
A Thaw Between U.S. and Venezuela Ahead of a Key Vote
When the Venezuelan government released five political prisoners late Wednesday to cheers from the country’s opposition, it was the most…
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News
To Win the War, Defeat Hamas and Stop Settlements
I have great admiration for how President Biden has used his empathy and physical presence in Israel to convince Israelis…
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World
As Conditions Worsen at Rikers, New Commission Revives Push to Close It
The troubled jail, now under threat of federal takeover, is required by law to close by August 2027. The City…