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Stephen M. Silverman, Biographer of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 71
An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing…
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The Hysterical Overreaction to Jayapal’s ‘Racist State’ Gaffe
Last weekend, Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat who is chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made a significant political…
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What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision
In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people
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‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?’
In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch…
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Business
‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations
The seventh film in the 27-year-old movie franchise was No. 1 at the box office, taking in $80 million over…
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At the University of Chicago: Was It Free Speech, or Harassment?
Readers react to a conservative student’s attempts to shut down a course called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
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In Brazil, Beauty Is a Right. Are They On To Something?
Every person with a toddler knows that her child is in constant imminent peril. Trying to prevent the next near-death…
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We Can’t Just Shoot Our Way Out of This
Our topic today is gun regulation. Come on, stop beating your head against the backyard grill. That thing’s hot. Americans…
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Style
Therapy Where the Clothes Come Off (Sometimes)
By combining talk therapy with elements of physical touch, surrogate partners assist people who are struggling with sex and intimacy.
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In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He…