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Preparing for the Second China Shock
Donald Trump is an old-fashioned protectionist, and he has been suggesting for a while that if elected he will quickly…
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Betty Buckley Is Not Wedded to the Same Old Songs
The actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold…
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Hades II’s Eternal Pursuit of a Tantalizing Past
The video game sequel’s central character struggles to exhume the memory of her former life. Out of the pandemic, our…
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Google Takes the Next Step in Its A.I. Evolution
The tech giant showed off how it would enmesh A.I. more deeply into its products and users’ lives, from search…
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Daniel Kramer, Who Photographed Bob Dylan’s Rise, Dies at 91
For 366 days, he captured intimate images of the singer-songwriter as he changed the look and sound of the 1960s.
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New York Announces $95 Million Revitalization of Port in Red Hook
New York City plans to rebuild three piers and add a new cargo crane after taking control of more than…
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The Essential Alice Munro
Before I’d read Alice Munro — when my knowledge of her amounted to an oafish word cloud (“older woman,” “Canadian,”…
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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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Podcasters as TV Heroes? We’re All Ears
Why have podcasters emerged as the rumpled protagonists of numerous television shows? We’ll discuss after the break.