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Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
An editor recommends two escapist biographies.
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A Museum of ‘Electrifying Frankness’ Weighs Dialing It Down
The Mütter Museum, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains in Philadelphia, wants to adopt a more…
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Tom Jones, Half of Record-Setting ‘Fantasticks’ Team, Dies at 95
He wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and became “the…
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After the Shock and Grief, Hawaii Will Reinvent Itself Again
The disaster that erased the beloved West Maui town of Lahaina this week comes with the bitter taste of bewilderment.…
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Why a Floating Speck of Metal Sent Scientists’ Hearts Racing
The past three weeks have witnessed the dramatic rise and fall of a new candidate for the holy grail of…
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Where’s the Vicuña Outrage?
Three men walk into a courtroom, as August heats up.
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Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?
“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the…
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The Ultimate Horror Movie Is Really About Heaven and Hell
It is one of those strange accidents of history that the best film ever made about the Roman Catholic Church…
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Are the Elite Anti-Trumpers the ‘Bad Guys’?
Readers react to David Brooks’s suggestion that the elite are partly to blame for Trumpism.
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Wonking Out: How Super Is Your Superpower?
My most recent column was about the troubles facing the Chinese economy, which appear to be serious. However, I was…