Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Writer Who Condemned Colonists and Elites, Dies at 87
Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on […]
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Pulp Took a 24-Year Break. Here’s Why Jarvis Cocker and Co. Wanted ‘More.’
“Someone said, oh, that’s very age appropriate,” the frontman recalled, of a […]
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What I Learned From the Great Singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The baritone Benjamin Appl remembers his teacher at 100, as one of […]
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)
What is the song you were obsessed with as a teenager? What […]
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What It’s Like on the Ground at the Sean Combs Trial
Now entering its third week, the complex case can only be experienced […]
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‘The Sealed Soil’: Modesty and Its Discontents
The Iranian director Marva Nabili’s first feature gets a weeklong run at […]
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The Vexing Art of Duchamp, Picasso and FromSoftware
When the video game Bloodborne dropped players into the deep end and […]
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24 New Books to Read in June: Taylor Jenkins Reid, James Patterson, V.E. Schwab and more
Fiction by Taylor Jenkins Reid and V.E. Schwab; a memoir of a […]
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The Met’s Renovated Rockefeller Wing Will Have Your Eyes Spinning
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the […]
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Stream These Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in June
A handful of great titles are leaving as early as the first […]
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