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‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day
This week’s episode, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, stepped away from the main action, offering a melancholy vignette about…
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A Quarter-Life Crisis Handled With Grace and Guts
MAAME, by Jessica George You can get a sense of Maddie Wright’s life from her Google searches, which pop up…
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Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet.
Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation…
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In These Stories, Everyone Wants to Be Somewhere Else
The characters in “The Faraway World” seek connection in a disconnected world. Patricia Engel provides it in her own clever…
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New York City and Its Discontents, in 3 New Books
Some of the most memorable fiction about sports centers on elite athletes with a penchant for the philosophical. They’re the…
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Demon Dolls, Lonely Dolls and Sex Dolls
An editor recommends old and new books.
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What the Bog Bodies Knew
When Roy van Beek was a teenager in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, he made a field trip to…
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It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister
LONDON — Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January,…
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Gregory Allen Howard, Screenwriter of ‘Remember the Titans,’ Dies at 70
After the success of the movie, he established a brand for writing Hollywood movies about inspiring episodes in Black history.
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Tyre Nichols’ Death Proves Yet Again That “Elite” Police Units Are a Disaster
The website of the Memphis Police Department includes an entire section called “Reimagine Policing.” The introduction emphasizes that trust is…