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Brazilian Police Seek Husband in Murder of Noted Art Dealer
Police officers investigating the murder of Brent Sikkema, a New York gallerist, in Rio are now seeking the arrest of…
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Palestinians in Rafah Describe ‘Night Full of Horror’ During Israeli Hostage Rescue
Palestinians in Rafah described a night of fear as Israeli strikes pummeled the area early Monday, killing and wounding dozens,…
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The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking
The Bomb and I go way back. In Seattle, where I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, it was…
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What Was The Village Voice?
“The Freaks Came Out to Write” is an oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly.
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Why We’re Living in an Age of Twins
Mirroring, mimicking and doubling are everywhere these days. What does this say about our collective sense of identity?
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Biden Has a Week He Would Like to Forget
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. It was a no good, very bad week for the “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor…
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Can Domestic Violence Victims Have Safety Without Secrecy?
I once visited a domestic violence shelter in New England. It was a small, nondescript Cape Cod-style house, jammed between…
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Death Masks from Ancient Egypt Find an Afterlife
Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old.
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Ellen Gilchrist, Writer With an Eye on the South’s Foibles, Dies at 88
In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came,…
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Steve Ostrow, Manhattan Bathhouse Impresario, Dies at 91
The Continental Baths, which he opened in 1968, became a pivot point in Manhattan’s gay history and a launchpad for…