A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing.A sale of…
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Trump Counts Crowd’s Size Using ‘MAGA Math,’ Says Stephen Colbert
“Ten thousand, a million — it’s just how they count,” Colbert said of Saturday’s Million MAGA March. “You round up for marches, you round down…
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She says the collection is not only a tribute to the legend, but also her mission to make his work accessible to allShe says the…
View More Artist Sangeeta Abhay presents 16 clocks, featuring Raja Ravi Varma’s iconic worksBruno Barbey, Magnum Photographer of War and Peace, Dies at 79
He was “a formidable visual architect” who captured the streets of Paris during the violent demonstrations in 1968 and documented the human experience in other…
View More Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photographer of War and Peace, Dies at 79Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America
Two new works of history, “South to Freedom,” by Alice L. Baumgartner, and “The Kidnapping Club,” by Jonathan Daniel Wells, show how the actions of…
View More Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change AmericaHave a Look at the Fabled Honey Forest
In northeastern Turkey, the beekeeping traditions of the Hemshin people, an ethnic minority originating from Armenia, are both evolving and at risk of vanishing.In northeastern…
View More Have a Look at the Fabled Honey ForestKing Von’s Debut Album Reaches the Top 5 After His Death
The rapper was shot and killed in Atlanta in early November. “Welcome to O’Block,” his first full studio release, climbed eight spots on the Billboard…
View More King Von’s Debut Album Reaches the Top 5 After His DeathThe Distinctive Black Beehives of Turkey’s ‘Honey Forest’
The beekeeping traditions of the Hemshin people, an ethnic minority originating from Armenia, are both evolving and at risk of vanishing.The beekeeping traditions of the…
View More The Distinctive Black Beehives of Turkey’s ‘Honey Forest’Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book
The star and co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” wryly explores adolescent angst, adult trauma and musical theater in a new memoir, “I Want to Be Where…
View More Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open BookJacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It
“Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple,” an updated cookbook, offers useful lessons in economy for trying times.“Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple,” an updated cookbook, offers useful…
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