Month: September 2022
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Confused by the New Mortgage Gimmicks? Here’s a Guide.
The new math is unforgiving: At 6.7 percent, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has more than doubled in less than…
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U.S. Penalizes Chinese Companies for Aiding Iran’s Oil Exports
WASHINGTON — Shifting to a tougher stance on Tehran amid signs that efforts to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal…
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15 New Books Coming in October
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen Quammen’s deeply reported book gives the story of…
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Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll
THE WHALEBONE THEATRE, by Joanna Quinn Whales loom large not just in the ocean but in landlocked imaginations: these mysterious…
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Strike at Philadelphia Museum of Art Is Window Into Broader Unrest
PHILADELPHIA — Workers picketing outside the entrances of the Philadelphia Museum of Art this week shouted their demands for higher…
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Morris Hirshfield Rises Again
It is a testament to the achievement of the self-taught tailor-turned-shoe-designer-turned artist Morris Hirshfield that — nearly 80 years after…
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Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown
Ten years ago, New York City Ballet held its first fashion gala, and with it came one of the most…
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Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny
Though it can be a great vehicle, “Funny Girl” has rarely been a great ride. Even its first-rate Jule Styne…
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The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus
In “Blonde,” the director Andrew Dominik’s fever-dream fictionalization of Marilyn Monroe’s life, Monroe (Ana de Armas) gets pregnant in a…
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Curators for the 2024 Whitney Biennial Are Announced
The Whitney Museum of American Art has tapped two curators with vastly different profiles to helm its 2024 Biennial exhibition:…
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