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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac’ Is a Mystical Memory Tour
Like a cosmological comic, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination.
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Toby Keith Was More Than Mere Bluster
His choice to become a post-9/11 culture-war champion overshadowed the work of a musician who was funnier, subtler and more…
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Botox Destroyed What I Liked About My Face
I tried Botox for the first time two years ago. I was rapidly approaching my 40th birthday, and, like so…
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Is Poor Economic Sentiment All About MAGA?
The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the…
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Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Interest rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this…
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Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump
After Joe Biden’s speech on Friday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes…
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$3 Million Homes in California
A Victorian rowhouse in San Francisco, a 1966 ranch house in Malibu and a three-bedroom home in Menlo Park.
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A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.
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How a Millennial Estée Lauder Built a Widely Popular Beauty Brand
Karissa Bodnar played on her customers’ desire to belong to something bigger than … well, beauty.
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Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78
She wrote about the leading figures in ballet and modern dance for more than 40 years. One of her books…