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She’s Shaking Up Classical Music While Confronting Illness
The pianist Alice Sara Ott, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week, is upending concert culture — and…
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What Janet Yellen Needs to Tell China’s Leaders
It would be great if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had a copy of “The Portable Karl Marx” with her on…
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Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…
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Demetri Martin Confronts the Paradoxes of a Veteran Standup Career
In his new Netflix special, “Demetri Deconstructed,” he tries a more conceptual approach than the simplicity he was known for.
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Julia Stiles Wanted to Be Just Like Kat Stratford, Too
Julia Stiles starts lunch with a disclaimer: “I’m kind of like a bundle of emotions, because I have a 5-month-old…
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How a Snake Uses Its Sense of Smell
These reptiles and their social networks are understudied, according to researchers applying scents to different snakes to assess their behavior.
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Is Your Garden Missing Something? You May Need a Large Pot (or Several).
An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And…
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$3.2 Million Homes in New York, Georgia and Utah
A 19th-century farmhouse with a guesthouse in Leeds, an 1850 townhouse in Savannah and a 1927 home in Salt Lake…
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When Latin America Became the Seat of Modernity
Lina Bo Bardi, the great Italian-Brazilian architect, liked to say we all invent architecture just by climbing a stair, crossing…
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Christopher Durang, the Surrealist of Snark
In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull…