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Marianne Jean-Baptiste Gives a Performance for the Ages in “Hard Truths”
We first met Hortense Cumberbatch, the soft-spoken optometrist at the heart of Mike Leigh’s wonderful 1996 film, “Secrets & Lies,” at a…
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Requiem for a Refugee Camp
Whenever I hear the Arabic word mukhayyam, or camp, my mind leaps to Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. I was born in Al-Shati…
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Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
In the field, Moises is restless and relentless, working from early morning till late at night with a professional’s calm. But his eye is…
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Counting Down to 2025 in N.Y.C.
Sheldon Pearce Pearce has covered music for Goings On since 2020. Celebrations abound as we wrap up yet another staggering year of…
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Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments”
With the frantic pace of modern life, it’s easy for the days to turn into weeks to turn into months without notice. But as the final…
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The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that…
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He’s Making a List, and Checking It Twice
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Kyle Abraham’s Extraordinary Dance Memoir
Kyle Abraham is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. He has been on the downtown contemporary-dance scene for more than two…
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For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words
Isabella Rossellini’s first exposure to the public glare was at five days old. Her father, the Italian neo-realist director Roberto…
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The Best Theatre of 2024
In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did…
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How Dare Celebrities Cheat?
It is not good to go back on a covenant, even one implicitly made and foggy regarding what would constitute a violation. Few monogamous…
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Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery”
For the cover of the December 23, 2024, issue, Kate Beaton created an image that doubles as a simple game. (To play, see the word bank…
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Up from Urkel, World-Famous Nerd
Toward the end of Jaleel White’s new memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” the actor runs through a list of regrettable life experiences. There’s an…
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The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Greene’s nearly decade-long collaboration with Morgan was arguably the most important relationship of her life outside her family, and I…
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Three Exceptional Panettones
When it comes to the Italian holiday loaf, there’s magnificence and there’s stultifying disappointment, with little in between. Source link
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Have the Democrats Become the Party of the Élites?
Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? So glad you asked. Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because the answer is so simple that…
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Hotter and Hotter
Living through the onset of rapid global warming involves learning to roll with the punches. Increasingly, those are quite real and…
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The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse
In the room devoted to the archives of Lucian Freud in London’s National Portrait Gallery, a strikingly tender painting depicts a young…
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Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him
Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over…
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The Year Creators Took Over
In early October, the No. 5 most popular podcast on Spotify, above the Times’ “The Daily” and just behind “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was…
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Are You Overreacting?
How to survive when provocations are a natural—and inescapable—part of life. Source link
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The Berlin Philharmonic Doesn’t Need a Star Conductor
When, in 2009, the Berlin Philharmonic launched the Digital Concert Hall, a streaming-video platform for its concerts, the orchestra had…
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How the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade
On Christmas Day in 1872, the atmosphere was restive among the forty female residents of a medical institution on the outskirts of St.…