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Torn Between Golden Past and Thorny Present, Oscars Still Had Some Fun
Even as the telecast indulged in the usual jokes, references to the 2023 strikes and current wars had their place,…
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Ira von Fürstenberg, Jet-Setting Princess and Actress, Dies at 83
With her aristocratic lineage, high-profile husbands and famous friends, she embodied a chic life of luxury as an international social…
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John Kerry: ‘I Feel Deeply Frustrated’
When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America’s top climate diplomat in 2021,…
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Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92
Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York, where he tended bar, appeared in soap operas, wrote…
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Inside the Governors Ball 2024 Oscars Party
At the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday evening, the writer-director Christopher Nolan and the producer Emma Thomas stepped…
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Adrianne Lenker Isn’t Scared of Sadness
When the singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker was 21, she was involved in a bike accident that knocked out one…
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‘Oppenheimer’ Is the Origin Story. These Three Movies Reveal Our Nuclear Present.
By W.J. Hennigan Produced by Phoebe Lett The national security writer W. J. Hennigan has spent many years ringing the…
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Why the Supreme Court Should Clear the Way for a Pre-Election Trump Trial
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that Colorado could not keep Donald Trump off its presidential primary ballot,…
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On the Wild Intoxications of Spring
I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming…
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‘Huck Finn’ Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling Just Might Be, Too.
Percival Everett’s new novel amends Mark Twain’s classic tale with the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.