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The Leadership Skill Most CEOs Don't Develop Until It's Too Late
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A Century of Marilyn Monroe
In May of 2022, the actress, reality-TV star, and lingerie mogul Kim Kardashian arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual…
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The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
Plenty of scholars and journalists have written histories of these contentious terms, “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Now…
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The American Revolution Wasn’t the Main Event
America’s influence went beyond haberdashery. Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country. The…
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Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel
Now a third joins their company, Harriet Clark’s superb first novel, “The Hill” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). It is narrated by Suzanna, who…
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The Norteño Burrito Takes New York
I wake up hungry, most days. Not peckish, not in need of a little boost—hungry, immediately and completely, hunger as urgent as any alarm…
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Steve Carell Has 11 Emmy Noms and Zero Wins. Why ‘Rooster’ Could Finally Wake Voters Up
There’s a secret contender in the Emmy race, and it’s “Rooster.” HBO Max already has an incredibly robust television slate for the…
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Sohrab Hura’s Frozen Vision of Kashmir
If Hura had assembled “Snow” in 2019, he would have chosen only photos like these: lateral and coded, often with no humans in them. His…
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Some Disney Adults Are Going Into Serious Debt in the Pursuit of Magic
Jennifer Davidson, a woman in Columbus, Ohio, describes herself as a “mild” Disney adult because she doesn’t have a merchandise…
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Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?
There was one text that Kenny thought was particularly relevant to his search for the truth about the epitaph. In 1732, Swift completed a…
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“Our Land” Is a Blistering Denunciation of Colonialist Oppression
But for decades, as some of Martel’s interviewees note, their presence on the land has come under threat from the Amíns of the world: we…
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Stella Pecollo on You, Me and Tuscany and Why Plus Size Representation in Film Finally Feels Different
Did you know that the last Black-led rom-com to hit the big screen before You, Me and Tuscany was Think Like a Man back in 2012? Fourteen…
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7 mindset shifts that turn a founder into a real leader
If you’ve been building for a while, you’ve probably felt the shift creeping up on you. What used to be about shipping faster, closing…
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“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite
Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more. Source link
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“Two Pianos” Is a Textured Contemporary Melodrama with Classic-Hollywood Restraint
Mathias is staying with his mother, Anna (Anne Kessler), in the apartment where he grew up, and chance intervenes again: walking through a…
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“The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood
In a new book, “Fast and Furious Franchising,” the media scholar Dan Hassler-Forest argues that the series is central to understanding the…
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Nepali Drama ‘Shakti’ Sets Prime Video Debut in U.S. and U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)
“Shakti,” the debut narrative feature from filmmaker Nani Sahra Walker, will make its digital bow on Prime Video across the U.S. and U.K.…
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An Expat Photographer Seduced by Mexican Ritual
Hurst didn’t become a writer, but he fashioned himself into the kind of character that a writer might wish they had imagined: an astute…
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A German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy
Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally…
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The Sqirl Redemption Arc
A mixture of moral outrage and lockdown angst turned #JamGate into national news. Koslow’s second cookbook, “The Sqirl Jam Book,” was…
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Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations”
For the cover of the May 4, 2026, issue, the artist Tomer Hanuka portrayed one particular delight of spring. “Everything synchs up—not…
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The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp
In 1905, Duchamp learned that, if he got certified as an essential “art worker,” his obligatory military service would be reduced from two…
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How Long Can Martha Graham’s Dance Revolution Last?
At the heart of her method—then and now—is contraction and release. Imagine a breath is sharply expelled, hollowing out the core until the…