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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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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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‘In Love’ Review: A Powerful Memoir About Marriage and Assisted Suicide
IN LOVEA Memoir of Love and LossBy Amy Bloom224 pages. Random House. $27.Amy Bloom and Brian Ameche were a handsome…
William P. Barr’s Memoir Is Part Lawyerly Defense, Part Culture-War Diatribe
Barr offers an extended apologia that tries to square his position on putting people to death with his religious faith.…
‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius
THE MAN FROM THE FUTUREThe Visionary Life of John von NeumannBy Ananyo BhattacharyaIllustrated. 353 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $30.The…
Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find the Next Dalai Lama
WHEN I’M GONE, LOOK FOR ME IN THE EASTBy Quan Barry302 pages. Pantheon Books. $27.A line of imperfect telepathic communication…
Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing
For one battle scene, she was repeatedly made to run a terrifying gantlet of explosives and debris. She jammed cotton…
P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition
During the 1980s and ’90s, his heyday, P.J. O’Rourke owned one of those bylines — like Nora Ephron’s, or Michael…
‘Heiresses’ Adds Up the Melancholy and Danger of Inherited Wealth
With diligence and proper indignation, Thompson shows how, long before Hearst’s ordeal hit the airwaves, these ostensibly fortunate daughters had…
A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War
BLACK CLOUD RISINGBy David Wright Faladé290 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $27.There’s nothing pulpy about David Wright Faladé’s “Black Cloud Rising.”…