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The face that launched a thousand tabloid stories — and books and documentaries and Instagram feeds — is taking center stage in the newest season…

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Maaza Mengiste spent years on “The Shadow King,” not only writing but also learning Italian, living in Rome and amassing an archive of historical photography…

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In the new season of “The Crown,” Gillian Anderson takes on the role of the “Iron Lady.” She’s just the latest in a long line…

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For years, we’ve been living inside a story defined by Donald Trump’s reality-TV worldview. America finally changed the channel.For years, we’ve been living inside a…

View More President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled

“It helped me reshuffle things in my head and how I wanted to speak.”“It helped me reshuffle things in my head and how I wanted…

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In “Metazoa,” Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the ocean depths to illuminate how the minds of animals work.In “Metazoa,” Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the ocean depths to illuminate…

View More Where Does Our Consciousness Overlap With an Octopus’s?

She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead.She tried her hand at fiction,…

View More Christie Tate Wrote a Best Seller About Group Therapy. Fellow Members Approved.

A second lockdown has put productions on hold and added extra drama to an already fraught theater season.A second lockdown has put productions on hold…

View More For Germany’s Theaters, a Reluctant Intermission