The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the…
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Late Night Praises Fox News Hosts for Their Acting Skills
The news that Fox News anchors sent texts on Jan. 6 urging President Trump to speak out against the insurrection while blaming antifa on air…
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At the urging of producers, Meredith Willson cut a boy in a wheelchair from the early scripts for his 1957 musical. A look back shows…
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Sent to the Soviet Union in 1959 to promote color television, he ended up taping what he later called a “turning point” in U.S.-Soviet relations.Sent…
View More Michael Gargiulo Dies at 95; Documented the Moscow ‘Kitchen Debate’Vicente Fernández Knew His Way Around Your Broken Heart
First breakups. Final goodbyes. For generations, Mr. Fernández, who died on Sunday, provided a soundtrack for moments of anguish and heartache, and a pathway to…
View More Vicente Fernández Knew His Way Around Your Broken Heart‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man
Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical drama about growing up in Naples is sensual, sad and occasionally sublime.Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical drama about growing up in Naples is sensual,…
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Idina Menzel and a hummable pop score can’t camouflage the fact that this musical is half-baked. Still, it can make for an enjoyable evening, our…
View More Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its FootingThat Viral Harry Styles Cardigan Just Got Auctioned as an NFT
Jonathan Anderson, the designer who made the original sweater, explains how it happened and what’s next.Jonathan Anderson, the designer who made the original sweater, explains…
View More That Viral Harry Styles Cardigan Just Got Auctioned as an NFTAn Intimate Look at the Dangerous, Boom-and-Bust Lives of Oil Workers
In “Sea State,” Tabitha Lasley writes about the time she spent in Scotland investigating life on and around oil rigs.In “Sea State,” Tabitha Lasley writes…
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A host of outstanding duet albums emphasized musicians not only collaborating but truly listening to each other.A host of outstanding duet albums emphasized musicians not…
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