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Mia Hansen-Love and the Hazy Line Where Real Life Ends and Art Begins
The French director translates her experiences into critically lauded dramas like “One Fine Morning,” about her father’s death and her…
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How to End South Korea’s Birth Strike? Feminism.
After trying for over a year to persuade more South Korean women to have babies, Chung Hyun-back says one reason…
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Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage?
Rural resentment has become a central fact of American politics — in particular, a pillar of support for the rise…
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How Useful Is Diversity Training?
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New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers
The joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, includes manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and…
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For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way
If you keep a musician friend for over 50 years, as the experimental director Ping Chong has done with Meredith…
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Lance Kerwin, ‘James at 15’ and ‘Salem’s Lot’ Star, Dies at 62
“James,” which followed the adventures of a sandy-haired teenager who moves with his family to Boston from Oregon, made him…
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Lloyd Morrisett, a Founder of ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 93
His observations about his 3-year-old daughter’s viewing habits led him to join Joan Ganz Cooney in creating a program that revolutionized…
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Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
First detected just days ago, 2023 BU will approach within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
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Anti-Gay? Anti-Science? Antisemitic? Run for Governor of North Carolina!
The 2024 governor’s race in North Carolina just got underway. You care. Not because this state is the nation’s ninth…