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Why Jay-Z’s Big Tonys Duet With Alicia Keys Was Offstage
The two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City,…
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His Family Survived the Nazis by Living in a Chicken Coop
A new museum exhibit on the Holocaust focuses on eight narratives, including the account of a man whose family escaped…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Premiere: What Was That Ending About?
Fans of the George R.R. Martin books know there are two words for that tense and slightly ambiguous ending to…
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After 40 Years of Dance, What Happens to a Dream Fulfilled?
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who founded Urban Bush Women four decades ago, says goodbye to it with a final work.
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Cosmic Horror Awaits Aboard a Perilous Oil Rig
The Chinese Room has long delivered unconventional game worlds. The metal offshore structure in Still Wakes the Deep might be…
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Logs an Eighth Straight Week at No. 1
Billie Eilish is No. 2, and Charli XCX debuts strong at No. 3.
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A Tale of Two Nearly Extinct Giant Salamanders
In Japanese rivers, if you’re very lucky, you might find unusual amphibians that grow up to five feet long and…
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3 High-Octane Summer Thrillers
You’re not going to like Dr. Caroline Strange, the psychiatrist in Louisa Luna’s constantly surprising TELL ME WHO YOU ARE…
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He’s an Emergency Medical Worker Fighting to Save People From His Own Life
Joseph Earl Thomas’s new novel, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” follows a health care worker on a tumultuous shift where…
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A Proud Texan Reckons With Her State’s Complicated Past
In her new book, Jessica Goudeau confronts a history of racism and violence in Texas through an investigation of her…