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British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow
The farce, by the team behind “The Play That Goes Wrong,” is about a bumbling theater company attempting to stage…
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News
Read Your Way Through Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination.…
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World
Does a Newly Elected G.O.P. Assemblyman Really Live in Brooklyn?
Lester Chang, a newly elected Republican representing a Brooklyn district, faces questions over whether he lives in the borough or…
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World
How Nature Kept St. John the Divine From Soaring Higher
Originally, the Manhattan cathedral was to have a 40-story tower, but its planners had failed to take geology into account.
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Business
Kevin McCarthy’s Business Ties Complicate His Rise to Power
To land the House speaker position, the California Republican will have to win over opponents who question his ties to…
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News
Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb and the Art of the Edit
Making movies about writers is notoriously difficult, though the temptation is clear. After all, filmmakers, like authors, are storytellers, and…
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World
‘Fear Still Remains’: Ukraine Finds Sexual Crimes Where Russian Troops Ruled
Russian officials have denied abuses against civilians despite widespread evidence of sexual violence by Russian troops documented by Ukrainian and…
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News
The Burn-It-All-Down Republican Caucus
Republicans keep reaping what they’ve sown. The party’s thoroughly embarrassing inability to choose a speaker of the House after multiple…
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US
Surprise in Pennsylvania: Republicans Back a (Former?) Democrat for Speaker
Representative Mark Rozzi, long a moderate Democrat, pledged not to caucus with either party as speaker of the closely divided…
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US
Idaho Killings Suspect Was Pulled Over Twice While Driving Across Country
In police footage from Indiana, the suspect’s father said they had been driving “for hours” and were unsettled by a…