Books
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Lena Dunham Channels a Voice of a (Different) Generation
Lena Dunham considers herself a historian of her own generation. As the creator of the HBO series “Girls,” she became…
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Why Does Hollywood Keep Using Fat Suits?
Slender Courteney Cox portraying a plump teenage Monica Geller on “Friends” started the gag in ’90s Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow’s role…
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Harvey Awards to Induct New Hall of Fame Members
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New…
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7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
🎧 Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young, with Brandi Larsen. Read by the author. Raised in the Children of…
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How Much Would You Pay to Hear Great Music?
“I’m a cellist, and I have played in orchestras my entire life,” Blake-Anthony Johnson, the president and chief executive of…
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‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance
“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s…
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With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos
“Greeks are like that,” the composer Iannis Xenakis said in 1967. “They are a people continually in search of themselves,…
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Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism
As K-pop was broadening its global ambitions in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it was also expanding its appetite,…
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New York Drill Rappers Say They Were Removed From Rolling Loud Festival
At least three rappers with ties to the booming New York drill scene — which has risen in popularity in…
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‘Firebuds’ Gives a Face to Emergency Workers, and Their Vehicles
From the genteel Thomas the Tank Engine to the rough-and-ready racecar Lightning McQueen, children’s entertainment has been filled with talking…