Arts
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‘Janet Planet’ Review: A Sticky Summer Full of Small Dramas
Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and…
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Everybody’s Looking for Something
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a twisted fable triptych about dominating and being dominated.
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‘Pre-Existing Condition’ Review: Recovering From a Traumatic Relationship
Marin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its…
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How Cage the Elephant’s Frontman Nearly Lost It All
Matt Shultz is a rock ’n’ roll ringmaster known for pushing himself to the brink. After a period of psychosis…
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Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s…
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Writers, the Wretched of the Earth
In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.
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How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Faith, Meet Futility
A new tier of knights, monsters and freaks often exceeds the most demanding late-game adversaries of Elden Ring. Belief in…
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Huey Lewis Musical to Close on Broadway as New Shows Struggle
“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony…
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How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”