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John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised?

LIARMOUTHA Feel-Bad RomanceBy John Waters240 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.In a…

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‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste

TACKYLove Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to OfferBy Rax King193…

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Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist

BOSTON — In the summer of 2020, looking over a checklist of…

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After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit

BOSTON — On Oct. 16, 1970, the American painter Philip Guston, who…

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14 New Books Coming in May

‘All the Lovers in the Night,’ by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam…

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What to Do in London: Platinum Jubilee, ‘Bridgerton’ Events and More

London is springing back to life. Heathrow Airport reports that March 2022…

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How to Look at a Basquiat

It’s not every day that New Yorkers can choose between two concurrent…

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In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight

The prospect of Federer’s retirement from tennis is just a fraction of…

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Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’

“Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews,” she writes, “and…

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