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Early on in the beautiful documentary “River City Drumbeat,” two leaders from the River City Drum Corp teach elementary school students in Kentucky a drum lesson. Albert Shumake, a new…
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For almost 70 years, the Chilean-born artist Alejandro Jodorowsky has been the utility infielder of lowercase-“s” surrealism. He’s a performer, graphic novelist, poet and, most…
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Two years ago, T: The New York Times Style Magazine published the photographs of more than a hundred of the city’s artists who had died of H.I.V./AIDS — a shocking record of creativity…
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LIFE EVENTSBy Karolina WaclawiakDo you know how to euthanize a bird? If not, you will just a few pages into “Life Events,” Karolina Waclawiak’s astute and distressing new…
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WRITER’S BLOCK Eddie S. Glaude Jr. says he first envisioned “Begin Again,” now at No. 5 on the hardcover nonfiction list, as an intellectual biography of James Baldwin: “But then I ran…
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Adapted from the highly acclaimed 2003 novel by Per Petterson, “Out Stealing Horses,” written and directed by Hans Petter Moland, is an ambitious film that examines memory and…
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The coronavirus pandemic poses a grave challenge to all of the performing arts. There are few ways to mitigate the risk from packing performers and audiences tightly together without…
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SALZBURG, Austria — There’s an unfamiliar name among all the stars on the posters for this summer’s truncated Salzburg Festival: “Zdenek Adamec.”It’s the title of a new play by Peter…
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“This is a political pamphlet, not a book,” said Peter Osnos, the founder of the nonfiction imprint PublicAffairs. “It hasn’t been subjected to any measure of quality or…
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About 17,000 years ago, in the caves of Lascaux, France, ancestors drew on grotto walls, depicting equines, stags, bison, aurochs and felines. They wanted to convey to other humans a…
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