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A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel’s work was “Wolf Hall” (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy…
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Meet the opponents for Federer and Nadal: Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock.
Here’s a 22nd century tennis trivia question: “Who was Roger Federer’s last opponent?” Trick answer. There were two: Jack Sock…
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Stop Making Asian Americans Pay the Price for Campus Diversity
The Supreme Court is poised to begin adjudicating lawsuits that claim the admissions policies of Harvard University and the University…
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A climate activist set himself on fire on court at the Laver Cup.
LONDON — A protester set fire to his arm after running onto the court during a match on Friday at…
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Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York?
Parading down the middle of West 63rd Street last Saturday afternoon, we were following a giant puppet — a whole…
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Ryan Grantham of ‘Riverdale’ Sentenced to Life for Mother’s Murder
Ryan Grantham, a young Canadian actor who appeared in the television show “Riverdale,” has been sentenced to life in prison…
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Five International Movies to Stream Now
‘A Distant Place’ Stream it on Tubi. In a remote village in South Korea, the farmhand Jin-woo (Kang Gil-woo) and…
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Birthday Messages to Celebrate Lives, Not Mourn Police Killings
If Oscar Grant III could celebrate his birthday, his mother, the Rev. Wanda Johnson, said, he’d welcome the entire neighborhood…
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.
KASSEL, Germany — It began with a calumny, it ends with a crack-up. Twice a decade, for exactly 100 days,…
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Lynn Nottage’s ‘Clyde’s’ Is the Most-Staged Play in America
Theaters around America appear to be staging fewer shows than they were before the pandemic, but a lot of the…