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From Pest to Ecosystem Engineer: The Beaver Gets a Makeover
“Beaverland,” by Leila Philip, offers an appreciative account of the North American rodent, whose habit of taking down trees and…
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The Sound of Sonny
Aidan Levy has written a revealing, comprehensive biography of the improviser-hero Sonny Rollins.
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A Belarusian Writer Who Calls for Poems Made of Barbed Wire
In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.
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Best of Late Night 2022: A Rebuilding Year
After a year of significant change, as hosts like Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee signed off, the future of late-night…
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Review: In ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ Real Estate Gets Real
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play finally comes to Broadway, its hilarious, loving and unvarnished vision of the universal human hustle…
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Was the World Collapsing? Or Were You Just Freaking Out?
What should we make of this year in America? There’s an argument that this is the end, or the beginning…
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How to Imagine a Different America
In my column this year, I’ve tried to emphasize the extent to which there are competing traditions — competing notions…
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The True Cost of Expanding the Child Tax Credit
As the current session of Congress winds down, with the stage set for a divided government over the next two…
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House Panel Backs Prosecution of Trump
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Weinstein’s Prosecutors Brought His Past Into the Courtroom. Good.
Since 2017 the name Harvey Weinstein has been practically synonymous with “sexual predator.” In the years since the wave of…