At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater
“King Lear” has long been the crowning performance for actors who know how to dominate a stage. As a longstanding member of Parliament, Jackson has unique insight into authority.
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“King Lear” has long been the crowning performance for actors who know how to dominate a stage. As a longstanding member of Parliament, Jackson has unique insight into authority.
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The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.
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The Washington-based literary agency Javelin has mastered the art of the Trump tell-all book — and come up with a blueprint for how to get out of the administration in one piece.
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At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.
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The Startlingly Flavorful Dressing That Will Boost More Than Just Your Salads
Stir together a few ingredients, and you have a sauce that will improve boiled broccoli, leafy mustard greens, even pizza crusts.
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I Detest the N.R.A. What Should I Do With My Gun?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on disarming, what really demonstrates social tolerance and when to share a secret.
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Letter of Recommendation: Revolving Restaurants
A taste of Space Age audacity in a world that lacks it.
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The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant
The photographer Christopher Payne spent two years shooting The Times’s printing plant in College Point, Queens. He captured the craft, precision, and unexpected beauty of the newspaper printing process.
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Poem: Spring Letter from the South
What could be more intimate than a daughter’s sharing with her mother the wonders of childbirth?
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