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The Role of Art in a Time of War

KYIV, Ukraine — You do not have to go far outside of…

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An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid

THE INHERITORSAn Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningBy Eve Fairbanks399 pages.…

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Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’

YOGABy Emmanuel CarrèreTranslated from the French by John Lambert335 pages. Farrar, Straus…

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Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show

LONDON — In the early 20th century, Glyn Philpot was one of…

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Below an Israeli City, a Musical Harmony Belies the Tensions Above Ground

RAMLA, Israel — In a subterranean reservoir, underneath the Israeli city of…

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What to See, Eat and Do in San Francisco

Lately, it seems like the news headlines from San Francisco have been…

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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital

When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father…

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Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

The first time she heard Barbara Walters use the expression “shout out”…

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Divine Excess on Avenue C

By 8:30 p.m. last Thursday night, just a half-hour after it opened,…

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