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Colson Whitehead Looks Back at ‘The Underground Railroad’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen When we recently asked just over 500 writers and other literary…
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An Undocumented Immigrant Admitted to the Elite World of Harvard
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s fiction debut, “Catalina,” brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.
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Are Democrats Right to Unite Around Kamala Harris?
A Middle Path for Democrats, and for Harris An open convention or a coronation aren’t the only two options.The transcript…
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Now Is the Time for Kamala Harris to Be Herself
During Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential primary campaign in 2019, she developed a reputation she has been unable to shake…
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Judge Cannon and JD Vance Are on the Same Team
In the days since Judge Aileen Cannon issued her inexplicable 93-page dismissal of the classified-documents case against Donald Trump, I’ve…
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Is the Populism of the Trump G.O.P. Real or Fake?
Before last week’s Republican convention, Donald Trump seemed to be moving away from the populism that characterized his 2016 campaign.…
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How to Protect the World From an Accidental Pandemic
It’s been about a century since viruses were recognized as causing devastating human diseases. Since then, scientists and public health…
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This Fizzy Cocktail of a Movie Deserves a Second Chance
“Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” has been woefully neglected. Maybe it was the culottes? But it will…
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In ‘Pre-Existing Condition,’ a Character Isn’t Defined by Abuse, or One Actress
Stars like Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell bring a communal quality to Marin Ireland’s play about the aftermath of domestic…
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The Conductor Who Bent Music History to His Will
There is a passage in Serge Koussevitzky’s final recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony that some listeners might hear in horror,…