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In this respect, the president has something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.

Here’s some of the history that the Barbie movie left out.

Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

Young creatives should be able to dream of a future in the performing arts, writes Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

“We can’t see what we’re capable of until someone turns a mirror toward us and reflects our own light back to us.”

At one point, a third of the white men in Denver were estimated to be Klan members.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

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A selection of photos from The New York Times of Harlem in the 1970s.

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.