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Is ‘The Idea of You’ Harry Styles Fan Fiction? The Answer Is Complicated
The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie…
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Nigel Sylvester Is a Different Kind of Superstar
At first, the children zipping around on bikes, roller skates and skateboards took little notice of the world famous athlete…
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Role-Play With Your Friends as Influencers Dying to Go Viral
The horror video game Content Warning, a surprise hit, lets players microdose as momentary celebrities on the fictional website SpookTube.
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Laura Linney on the Singer Who Reminds Her of Beginnings
“The sound of his voice reminds me of the beginnings of things,” the actress said. “The first time you fell…
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‘The Keep Going Songs’ Review: Vexed by Grief and Worried About the Planet
Abigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a…
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Grief Broke Marlon Wayans. Comedy Put Him Back Together.
It’s not easy to build a long and lucrative career by making comedy that some people might be tempted to…
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The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
In a recent interview with Time, Donald Trump promised a second term of authoritarian power grabs, administrative cronyism, mass deportations…
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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s…
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One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza
An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief:…
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.