Arts
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In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People
As Larissa FastHorse worked with the Broadway cast of “The Thanksgiving Play,” which centers on four white people trying to…
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A Beauty Brand That Turns Self-Improvement Into a Nightmare
In Ling Ling Huang’s debut, “Natural Beauty,” a woman discovers that there are horrors lurking beneath the surface of a…
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Legacy — and Betrayal — of Black Soldiers
In “The Wounded World,” Chad Williams examines the scholar-activist’s struggle to complete a book about Black troops’ experiences during World…
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How Poetry and Performance Combined to Become a New Genre
In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to…
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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer
After more than two decades at the forefront of electronic dance music (while in a robot-style helmet), the French artist…
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In ‘Beef,’ Road Rage Is Only the Beginning
LOS ANGELES — In the upcoming Netflix series “Beef,” Steven Yeun plays Danny Cho, a struggling handyman in Los Angeles…
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Heidi Gardner Celebrates Easter … Candy
When she isn’t making audiences laugh on “Saturday Night Live,” she’s hanging out with girlfriends, admiring the flowers at 30…
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Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris
As Annie Cohen-Solal shows in “Picasso the Foreigner,” the Spanish master was always under suspicion in France, simply for being…
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The Things They Left Behind: How the U.S. Laid Waste to Southeast Asia
George Black’s new book, “The Long Reckoning,” describes the environmental devastation of the Vietnam War.
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Real People, Reincarnated in the Pages of New Novels
One of the great attractions of historical fiction is its ability to approach the past from unexpected angles, allowing us…