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An Essayist Who Revels in Glorious Chaos
In her third essay collection, the poet and critic Elisa Gabbert celebrates literature and life through a voracious engagement with…
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Read Your Way Through New Orleans
New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books…
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I’m Choking on My Neighbor’s Smoke. But She’s Rent-Stabilized. What Can I Do?
When it comes to rent-stabilized tenants, legal claims against co-ops are tricky. Ultimately, it’s the apartment’s owner who must take…
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No, Byron Donalds, Jim Crow Didn’t Create Stronger Black Families
At an event in Philadelphia promoting Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday, Representative Byron Donalds of Florida made…
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An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust
Big chunks of the history of the Covid pandemic were rewritten over the last month or so in a way…
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This Glorious Celebration Shows What Border Communities Can Be
The sky was muddy gray when I arrived at the Sams Memorial Stadium parking lot on a cool February afternoon.…
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The Woes of Donald Trump Will Never Rise to the Level of Public Tragedy
When a Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump guilty, it should have sent shock waves through the nation. Yet, though…
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My Mom Had Alzheimer’s. Now I Do Too. But I Learned From Her Not to Despair.
My mother spent the last three decades of her life afflicted by the loss of memory and control that comes…
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How Will Employers Regard Today’s Student Activists?
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about college protesters’ job prospects and future careers.
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Can Big Art Make It in Las Vegas? Urs Fischer Weighs In.
The desert entertainment mecca is “artificial, but in a good way,” says the Swiss artist. His 46-foot-tall, gold-leaf sculpture is…