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Books
When the Writing Demands Talent and Discretion, Call the Ghostwriter
Ghostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a…
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News
Pope Benedict Wasn’t Conservative. He Was Something Much More Surprising.
“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the…
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US
Biden Will Mark Jan. 6 With Presidential Medals for Election Officials
The Presidential Citizens Medal will honor those who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including law enforcement officers and…
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News
The Meaning of the Chaos in the House
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Books
‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld
In Deepti Kapoor’s cinematic novel, a young man from the provinces falls in with a powerful crime syndicate.
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Arts
Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence
In “The Inspection,” he plays a drill instructor who takes a bullied recruit under his wing, the kind of nurturing…
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Books
Read Your Way Through Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination.…
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World
Does a Newly Elected G.O.P. Assemblyman Really Live in Brooklyn?
Lester Chang, a newly elected Republican representing a Brooklyn district, faces questions over whether he lives in the borough or…
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Arts
A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…
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US
Surprise in Pennsylvania: Republicans Back a (Former?) Democrat for Speaker
Representative Mark Rozzi, long a moderate Democrat, pledged not to caucus with either party as speaker of the closely divided…