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PEN America Has Stood By Authors. They Should Stand By PEN.
All strong institutions stand to benefit from internal dissent and external pressures. But too often, recent efforts to reform institutions…
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Review: A Fierce Soprano Arrives at the Met in ‘Madama Butterfly’
Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic…
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On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom
Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a…
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The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
A few years ago, “Atlanta” and “PEN15” were teaching TV new tricks. In “Atlanta,” Donald Glover sketched a funhouse-mirror image…
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Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin…
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A Close Examination of the Most Infamous Public Toilet in America
On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Francisco’s Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But…
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Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
When I was in college, I came across “The Sea and Poison,” a 1950s novel by Shusaku Endo. It tells…
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to…
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These Books Might Make You Happier
Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.
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How Real Estate Became Showbiz and Agents Became Stars
The crowd began gathering at 5 p.m., into the movie-perfect backyard of a 1920s Spanish-style Los Angeles estate once owned…