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BOOKS OF THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE TIMES;Jazz's Dark Forces and the Artists Who Love Them See the article in its original context from March 20, 1996, Section C, Page 20 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine
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When I woke up on Sunday morning, I saw rumors of the news that I’d hoped to see for three years. Frankly, that I never thought would come. It was confirmed in an email to staff this morning: Emil Mic
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By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Colum McCann, George Saunders, Emma Donoghue, Michael Chabon, and more. Doug Mc
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Most of us know the story. You start your career as a front-line designer, researcher, coder, or writer. You love what you do. You love being a part of the process of making new stuff. Or making old stuff better. By some random series of events – some might say misfortune – someone eventually…
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When Brian Eno met Basil Kirchin for the first time, in a London recording studio in 1974, he realised that he was encountering a true outsider artist: someone doggedly oblivious to the wider world as
Interesting things are afoot in legislative redistricting! Over the past ten years, Republicans have enacted partisan gerrymanders in a number of state houses in order to establish and maintain contro
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