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The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive ...
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience
Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...
The Rise of the Selfish Plutocrats
How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...
Two new reasons to revisit Joni Mitchell’s remarkable catalogue
I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...
A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing
But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...
Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
'We Live in Time' review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in the biggest cinema disappointment of the year
On paper, We Live in Time seems thoughtfully formulated to be the perfect tearjerker for today. John Crowley, the celebrated ...
Author uncovers 400 years of family's slave history to understand recent traumas
Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...