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What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Some numbers are odd: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 … Some are even: 2, 4, 6, 8,…
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wants to Take it Slow, Despite Her Rapid Rise
LOS ANGELES — To listen to Njideka Akunyili Crosby talk about the lengths to which she’ll go in researching the…
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A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
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There Is a Reason Ron DeSantis Wants History Told a Certain Way
As you have probably seen by now, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has signed another bill that limits classroom instruction…
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Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it.…
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Classical Crescendo
WASHINGTON — The orgasm heard around the world was reported by Magnus Fiennes, a composer and music producer who is…
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How to Change a Life for 50 Cents
MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Brace yourself for a gross fact: Some 1.5 billion of the world’s people have worms living…
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Fear Is for Sale on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S.-Mexico border was full of uncertainty in the days before May 11. Title 42, the Trump administration-crafted health ordinance…
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Can the Writers’ Strike Fix Hollywood?
Here’s my attempt to summarize the context of the Hollywood writers’ strike in three sentences. First, the entertainment business, floated…
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On ‘Succession,’ This Season Has Turned Us All Into Tom
My friends who have never seen “Succession,” the hit HBO show that will soon come to an end, say that…