From ‘Wicked’ to Elon Musk, How Americans Learned to Root for the Supervillain
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How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker and “Wicked” to Elon Musk.
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Formerly Classified Documents Get the Fine Art Treatment
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Hundreds of declassified U.S. Army photos are featured in the new book “Fashion Army.”
Fredric Jameson, Critic Who Linked Literature to Capitalism, Dies at 90
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Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.
For the Marxist Literary Critic Fredric Jameson, Reading Was the Path to Revolution
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The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.
Frederick Schauer, Scholar Who Scrutinized Free Speech, Dies at 78
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In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, he devoted himself, as he once said, to “questioning the unquestionable or thinking the unthinkable.”
Fall 2024 Fashion Books by Iris Apfel, Diane Keaton & More
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Iris Apfel, Diane Keaton and Henri Bendel are just some of the style icons featured in the pages of this season’s most fashionable titles.
From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’
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Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92
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The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
From Naples to New Orleans, Murder and Mayhem
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Our crime columnist on four new novels.
Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91
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A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.