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Blasting Books with Excessive-Stress Water, Man Laramée Scales Mountains of Information
From his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Man Laramée (beforehand) creates otherworldly sculptures that mirror close by peaks like Pico da Caledônia. Utilizing a singular methodology of blasting vintage…
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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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10 Books on Abortion to Understand the Roe v. Wade Debate
As the Supreme Court reconsiders Roe v. Wade months shy of its 50th anniversary, and likely prepares to overturn it,…
Lidia Yuknavitch Writes to Break With the ‘Tyranny’ of the Past
Her editor at Riverhead, Calvert Morgan, described her as “one part fiction writer, one part provocateur and one part world…
‘The Last Resort’ Interrogates the Beach While Enjoying It
THE LAST RESORTA Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the BeachBy Sarah StodolaIllustrated. 341 pages. Ecco. $27.99.Publishing a book…
The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer
I USED TO LIVE HERE ONCEThe Haunted Life of Jean RhysBy Miranda SeymourIllustrated. 421 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $32.50.Like…
A Book Has Women in Africa Talking About Sex
The positive reaction to Sekyiamah’s book was “so powerful and so necessary,” said Mona Eltahawy, the Egyptian American author of…
‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall
The phrase for this seductive maneuver is the “Gruen transfer,” wherein what starts as a single item on a to-do…
Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P.
DOLLARS FOR LIFEThe Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican EstablishmentBy Mary Ziegler318 pages. Yale University Press. $35.The upheavals…
The Best Books to Read on Disinformation: Its History, Techniques and Effects
False statements, misdirection, half-truths and outright lies: When promoted and repeated in the echo chambers of social media, they can…