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The Intimate Reality of the J.F.K. Assassination
A visit to Dealey Plaza, after years of thinking and reading about the Kennedy assassination, came as a shock.
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The Best Jokes of 2023
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A Spice Girl fighting the class war, Kendall Roy making a last stand, and more of the year’s comic relief.
A Hidden Stash of Extraordinary Self-Portraits
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A début monograph by Carla Williams lets the world in on a quietly thrilling collection of images that have been tucked away for nearly four decades.
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The Critics
The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World
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Two recent books, “The Quickening” and “The Parenthood Dilemma,” consider the ethics of procreation in the age of man-made climate change.
On “Higher,” Chris Stapleton Makes His Case for Love
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The country star’s new album is concerned almost exclusively with affairs of the heart—but his gritty, determined voice never sounds sentimental.
The Search for Faith, in Three Plays
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In “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” “Scene Partners,” and “Waiting for Godot,” characters seeking redemption skirt the fringes of belief and delusion.
Goings On
The Lasting Pleasures of New Haven Pizza
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The city’s restaurants inspire pilgrimages and intense loyalties. Can their magic be replicated elsewhere?
Photo Booth
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A Hidden Stash of Extraordinary Self-Portraits
A début monograph by Carla Williams lets the world in on a quietly thrilling collection of images that have been tucked away for nearly four decades.
Video
“Parker”: One Black Family’s Quest to Reclaim Their Name
A Kansas City family reunites to do something that countless African Americans before them could not do—choose their own last name.