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Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It
I wasn’t prepared for Jean-Luc Godard; I doubt that anyone ever was. And now that he’s gone it feels impossible…
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Who Wears the Skirts in the Family?
“Nothing against dating apps, but I think in a lot of ways digital culture is actually keeping people from connecting,”…
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The Artist Making Sculptures From Scraps
We Want the Funk The B.D.S.M. fried chicken from Wenwen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which the chef Eric Sze marinates for…
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Ian McEwan Returns With a Tale of Adolescent Lust and Adult Lassitude
LESSONSBy Ian McEwan431 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation — among…
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U.S. Returns Rare Coin Minted by Jews During Rebellion From Rome
American investigators returned a rare silver coin to Israel on Monday that they say was minted as a marker of…
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The Joke’s on Fashion Week
Is it appropriate to tell a joke about body fluids while wearing Chanel? This was the question posed on Thursday…
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A Storied New York Gallery Comes Home
Here’s a story that serves as a worthy metaphor for the current state of the art world: In 2018, the…
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In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness
STRANGERS TO OURSELVESUnsettled Minds and the Stories That Make UsBy Rachel Aviv276 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. Rachel Aviv…
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An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin
BERLIN — There was a warm ovation as the musicians of the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra came onstage here on Tuesday…
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Venice: Could ‘Banshees’ Be Colin Farrell’s Oscar Breakthrough?
VENICE — When it comes to feuds, this year’s Venice Film Festival has really overdelivered. First, the director Alejandro G.…