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A Miniature Musical Curio Store by Chris Millar Spins Like Clockwork
After he graduated from artwork faculty, Chris Millar (beforehand) labored in a toy retailer for seven years. “The shop, now defunct, was called Livingstone and Cavell Extraordinary Toys in Calgary, Alberta,…
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Joining the Mile High Club on a Flight with Love Cloud
For $995, Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for…
‘Russia is the global enemy’: Fallout from Ukraine invasion could last for years
WASHINGTON — When he invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin almost certainly expected a quick, decisive conquest…
Watch Jiminy Cricket become Pinocchio’s conscience in an exclusive clip from Disney+’s live-action remake
It’s a tale as old as time — OK or at least as old as…
G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on…
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A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition
Even with less challenging work, Hodges would subconsciously self-sabotage, she suggests, always choosing in rehearsal a troubling passage “where I was…
18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring
This season, watch for new books by Emily St. John Mandel, Chris Bohjalian, Monica Ali and Douglas Stuart; a literary…
Dutch Publisher of ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ Halts Publication
Ms. de Gorter said she had shared this information with the team, but they ignored her, she said. Instead, the…
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion
There have been many, many previous biographies of Leigh and several of Olivier (including one by his oldest son, Tarquin,…
National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners
Anthony Veasna So’s short-story collection “Afterparties,” which centers on the lives of Cambodian Americans in California, won the National Book…
The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame
Its absence can be liberating or terrifying, depending on where you sit. When he was president, Donald Trump was often…
A New York City Childhood Leads to Anxiety and Jokes in ‘What’s So Funny?’
Chast’s book was a graphic memoir, told using her art; in Sipress’s book, his cartoons act more as punctuation marks…
An Author Wrote About Her Sister’s Murder. It Led to a Breakthrough.
Through the account, she got a tip from a credible source in August that he had likely been living in…