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Food
Review: An African Choir’s Disillusioning Journey to the West
Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi’s “Broken Chord” considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England…
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Magazine
A Treehouse Builder Who Celebrates Impermanence
“CAN YOU FEEL it swaying?” Takashi Kobayashi asks, 30 feet or so up a camphor tree growing in the cramped…
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Politics
The Gems Hiding in Plain Sight in the Treasury Market
Back in 1994, bonds with fabulous yields were there for the taking. Our columnist doesn’t see treasures like that now,…
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Food
A Filmmaker’s Fraught Specialty: Women at Work and the Men Who Scare Them
Kitty Green’s movies, “The Assistant” and now “The Royal Hotel,” address gender dynamics in familiar, but menacing, environments.
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Food
In Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel, Slavery Is Hell and Dante Is Our Guide
LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…
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World
The New Darling of the European Art Trade? Paris.
At the Paris+ fair and its satellites, there was plenty of talk about the art world’s center of gravity in…
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World
‘The Persian Version’ Director Has Always Lived in the In-Between
In her new film, Maryam Keshavarz finds both gravity and levity in the struggle to reconcile her Iranian heritage and…
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Politics
War in a Time of Informational Chaos
As a few bleak anecdotes illustrate, it is often impossible, in real time, for outsiders to know what is happening…
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Politics
The Deep Roots of Republican Dysfunction
The collapse of the House Republican majority into chaos is the clearest possible evidence that the party is off the…
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Politics
Why Egypt Can’t Solve Gaza’s Problems
In this period of intense Israeli military preparation following Hamas’s horrific terror attack on Oct. 7, and equally intense diplomatic…