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This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit

In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the…

St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness

On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who…

‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers

In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will…

A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward

Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at…

After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On

This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks…

The New Age of D.I.Y. Medicine

“Cavities are a communicable disease, and if you’re among the 90 percent of Americans who’s ever had one, you probably…

Modi’s Temple of Lies

The sleepy pilgrimage city of Ayodhya in northern India was once home to a grand 16th-century mosque, until it was…

The Kamala Harris Moment Has Arrived

One of Kamala Harris’s most memorable moments during the 2020 presidential election cycle was when, during a Democratic primary debate,…

Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce

The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll…

Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89

In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research:…

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