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The Role of Art in a Time of War
KYIV, Ukraine — You do not have to go far outside of…
An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid
THE INHERITORSAn Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningBy Eve Fairbanks399 pages.…
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…
Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show
LONDON — In the early 20th century, Glyn Philpot was one of…
Below an Israeli City, a Musical Harmony Belies the Tensions Above Ground
RAMLA, Israel — In a subterranean reservoir, underneath the Israeli city of…
What to See, Eat and Do in San Francisco
Lately, it seems like the news headlines from San Francisco have been…
When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father…
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”…
Divine Excess on Avenue C
By 8:30 p.m. last Thursday night, just a half-hour after it opened,…