Food
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17 New Books Coming in May
Chop Fry Watch Learn, by Michelle T. King Once called “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking,” Fu Pei-Mei taught generations…
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When Your Mom Is Famous for Hating Motherhood
In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who…
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The Complicated Artist Behind the Moomins
The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.
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Young, Cool, Coddled and Raised on the Internet
The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is…
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Review: A Fierce Soprano Arrives at the Met in ‘Madama Butterfly’
Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic…
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On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom
Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a…
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The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
A few years ago, “Atlanta” and “PEN15” were teaching TV new tricks. In “Atlanta,” Donald Glover sketched a funhouse-mirror image…
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to…
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These Books Might Make You Happier
Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.
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Arlene Shechet’s ‘Girl Group’ Nudges Heavy Metal Men at Storm King
The recent late-life critical embrace of a generation of underappreciated major female artists — the 91-year-old nude self-portraitist Joan Semmel,…