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Punctured Images by Yael Martínez Illuminate the Every day Ruptures of Systemic Violence
The Mexican state of Guerrero lies on the southern Pacific coast and is residence to the favored vacationer vacation spot of Acapulco. It’s additionally one of many nation’s most violent…
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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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‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 pages. Soft Skull. $23.Care work — tending to the sick, the…
Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood
He loved it, despite the class’s unenthusiastic response to his first effort, which he described as a short story “about…
Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger?
When the largest publisher in the country, Penguin Random House, struck a deal in the fall of 2020 to acquire…
An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid
THE INHERITORSAn Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningBy Eve Fairbanks399 pages. Simon & Schuster. $27.99.It was nothing short of…
Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’
YOGABy Emmanuel CarrèreTranslated from the French by John Lambert335 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.Emmanuel Carrère’s “Yoga” was released as…
Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English
The first time she heard Barbara Walters use the expression “shout out” on television, Tracey Weldon took note.“I was like,…
In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery
THE KINGDOMS OF SAVANNAHBy George Dawes Green289 pages. Celadon Books. $27.99.Writer’s block has gone lamentably out of fashion, with people…
Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave.
A FACTOTUM IN THE BOOK TRADEA MemoirBy Marius Kociejowski349 pages. Biblioasis. $18.95.I love the smell of old books. More than…