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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

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Ten-year caseErin Somers (Simon & Schuster). At the beginning of this intoxicating romance, a married man and a married woman ...

A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

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President Donald Trump arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning, October 13, just as Hamas was freeing the last ...

A Superbloom of Daring Theatre Hits New York

A Superbloom of Daring Theatre Hits New York

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In Preston Max Allen's filmCaroline”, expertly directed by David Cromer, once a wild child, Maddie (Chloë Grace Moretz), is reunited ...

Tame Impala Is an Obsessive, Not a Perfectionist

Tame Impala Is an Obsessive, Not a Perfectionist

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The magic of Parker's music – what makes his recordings so restless, hesitant and dynamic – is based on the ...

Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself

Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself

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On November 20, 1959, at a dock in Brooklyn, writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the cargo ship Venimos bound for Iquitos, ...

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

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Watkins himself was something of a mythical figure. A Casaubonian in scholarship and determination without tragic vanity, he was born ...

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

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The very phrase “Theater of Poets,” it must be said, does not inspire much confidence, being a combination of two ...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

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Gods of New YorkJonathan Mahler (Random House). This chronicle of New York spans four “convulsive and momentous” years of its ...

Misty Copeland’s Ballet Send-Off | The New Yorker

Misty Copeland’s Ballet Send-Off | The New Yorker

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Sometimes refund this is also goodbye. Misty Copeland, first black female soloist American Ballet Theatre, She may be the most ...

Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

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Leave it to Richard Linklater to see how fundamental things are applied to art. His two new films—Blue Moon, about ...