CULTURE
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“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly…
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My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine
My cat, Harriet, is curled up on the TV console when I walk into the living room. She blinks at…
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Sam Shepard’s Enactments of Manhood
In the older Rogers’s case, the alcohol and the trauma worked a deep transformation; he grew paranoid about his family,…
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Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads “The Golden Boy”
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The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti
The rest of Fela’s story is largely a cat-and-mouse game, and then an outright battle, between art and the state,…
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The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails
On Sunday, the anti-trafficking organization World Without Exploitation released a P.S.A. featuring eleven of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. Each of the…
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Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 11th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link
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The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical…
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What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond
Election Night 2025 was a good one for Democrats. On Tuesday, the Party recaptured the governorship in Virginia, with the…
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