Sam Riviere’s novel, “Dead Souls,” considers fraudulence as a culture’s dominant mode of making art.Sam Riviere’s novel, “Dead Souls,” considers fraudulence as a culture’s dominant…
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Researchers using enhanced, rare footage of a transport to a Nazi death camp have been able to identify some passengers, including children who survived.Researchers using…
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“Joe Biden has a Venmo account? How? The dude is, like, 150 years old,” Noah joked, saying he assumed Biden “paid for everything with silver…
View More Trevor Noah Can’t Believe Biden Has a Venmo AccountThree Views of ‘The Motherboard Suite,’ Indoors, Outdoors and Online
Bill T. Jones brings a program of Saul Williams’s work to a New York Live Arts festival of ideas as audiences adjust to the city’s…
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Michel Marc Bouchard’s melodrama, about an illicit gay love affair in 1912, displays a lot of kookiness and little self-awareness.Michel Marc Bouchard’s melodrama, about an…
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In the opening sketch of “Saturday Night Live,” Kate McKinnon played Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, attempting to explain the latest recommendations for people who are…
View More ‘S.N.L.’ Is Just as Confused About the New Mask Guidelines as You AreOld Songs in the Public Domain Get Makeovers With a Purpose
The producer Ray Angry and the visual artist Katherine McMahon lead a project that reimagines songs freely available for public use for the current moment.The…
View More Old Songs in the Public Domain Get Makeovers With a PurposeRadio City Music Hall to Reopen to Maskless, Vaccinated Full Houses
The venue will welcome audiences back indoors June 19 for the Tribeca Festival’s closing night.The venue will welcome audiences back indoors June 19 for the…
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Jim Shepard’s new novel charts a global health crisis that results from two boys trespassing on a mining site in Greenland.Jim Shepard’s new novel charts…
View More In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a PandemicJean Smart Shines in ‘Hacks’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’
With “Mare of Easttown” and now “Hacks,” an actor that Hollywood undervalued for years continues her career resurgence.With “Mare of Easttown” and now “Hacks,” an…
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