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‘Little Beasts’ Is a First-of-Its-Form Museum Collaboration Reveling in Artwork and the Pure World
In the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, main developments in colonial growth, commerce, and scientific know-how spurred a fervor for learning the pure world. Beforehand unknown or missed…
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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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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…
An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the West
“It does help people who are suddenly stuck under bombardment to feel that their voices are being heard,” said Boris…
‘Woman’ Is an Ambitious Attempt to Capture Four Centuries of Being Female
WOMANThe American History of an IdeaBy Lillian FadermanIllustrated. 571 pages. Yale University Press. $32.50.We’ve come a long way, baby.Maybe? That’s the…
Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish
“I am an artist who was raised by an accountant and a businessman,” Sanderson said in a phone interview from…
NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination
But because Bulawayo was not “white or Western,” Shringarpure said, her book led to thought-provoking conversations around artistic freedom and…