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How Much of a Threat Is Kennedy to Biden?
The columnist Michelle Goldberg reports on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s coalition of the alienated.
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…
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Is This Maternity Hospital Haunted, or Is It All a Pregnant Metaphor?
In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.
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What Happened When Captain Cook Went Crazy
THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides…
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Climate Change Is Making Us Paranoid, Anxious and Angry
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, by Clayton Page Aldern We know, often with abject…
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Welcome, Vault Dwellers: A Guide to the Fallout Universe
The war-scarred ghouls and bulky power armor seen in three decades of video games arrive in the new TV show…
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They Made a Movie About a Pack of Sasquatches. Why?
An earthquake and an eclipse weren’t the only natural rarities that happened in New York City this past week. Did…
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A Dance Through Dusty Time: The Choreographic Bite of Beth Gill
In “Nail Biter,” a New York City premiere, this exacting choreographer explores her ballet roots and how to be in…
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¡Vámonos! Dora Is Back for a New Round of Exploring
Boots, Map, Swiper and Backpack all return too, in a new “Dora” that includes a lot more Latin music and…
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Comics Artist Dies After Sexual Misconduct Accusations
Ed Piskor, 41, was known for his detailed “Hip Hop Family Tree” and “X-Men: Grand Design.” A Pittsburgh gallery didn’t…