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  1. 4 minutes ago

    The portraits in Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s new show are based on his neighbors in Crown Heights, where he and his wife recently bought a house.

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  2. 35 minutes ago

    The music of the Burkinabe orchestra Volta Jazz is infectious and filled with joy. Even if you don’t understand the Jula language in which it is sung, it is a distillation of delight.

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    Early observers saw termites as a model of what humans could be: more cooperative and harmonious, less competitive aggressive. These days, researchers consider them a resource, to be harnessed for their own, already established ends:

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    Ruth E. Carter’s costumes have brought to life such figures from black history as Joseph Cinqué, played by Djimon Hounsou in Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad,” and Malcolm X, played by Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s bio-pic:

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Ten years ago, this week, the entire U.S. economy nearly died.

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    For the Dongria people, “the mountain is God’s abode,” a young woman named Purnima told . “For many generations, we’ve worshipped these hills, streams and trees.”

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    Comedy often offends people, and in a country where political disputes sometimes flare into violence it can be difficult to know where to draw the line. “I’m not against starting a crisis,” a writer of a Nigerian show joked. “Just not in the first episode”

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    The toxic miasma of bad vibes is not, in Jaron Lanier’s view, an epiphenomenon of social media, but rather the fuel on which it has been engineered to run:

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  9. 4 hours ago

    The celebrated coder Linus Torvalds, known for the operating system he created and his aggressive style of communication, says he is seeking help.

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  10. 4 hours ago

    Sarah Sanders often appears to mistake journalism for stenography or cheerleading—she sometimes tells the media what to “celebrate,” such as the state of the economy:

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    Christians have to go into "the darkest places, and the dirtiest places, and the most tainted and dysfunctional places" -- Sarah Sanders, in a profile by

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  12. 4 hours ago

    Before his apparent poisoning, Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov was working with three Russian journalists who were killed in the Central African Republic.

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  13. 5 hours ago

    "That's one of the great joys of poetry is that it is about transformation," Nick Flynn says, in this episode of The New Yorker Poetry Podcast with .

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    "I loved Café Loup, not more than anyone else but the way a great number of people did. If it is really gone, where will we meet instead?" asks in the

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  15. 5 hours ago

    "I view my religion as a metaphor, as wishy-washy as that sounds."

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    Although Carrie Coon often winds up in roles that revolve around faith and uncertainty, she exudes a Midwestern pragmatism, which she knows can have its own kind of mystery:

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  17. 6 hours ago

    Meet the Nigerian musicians who are changing the sound of global pop: Falana's music bears the influence of Latin jazz as well as of the funk-obsessed firebrand musician Fela Kuti.

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  18. 7 hours ago

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie knew that many Nigerians her own age and younger would read her novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” as history. That’s why she felt she must get the history right:

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  19. 7 hours ago

    By threatening to pull out of NAFTA and impose tariffs on European cars and Canadian dairy products, Trump forced his adversaries to submit. Now he seems to think he can do the same thing to China:

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  20. 8 hours ago

    New details have emerged in the apparent poisoning of Russian activist Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the protest-art group Pussy Riot, and they may shed light on the deaths of three Russian journalists who were shot in the Central African Republic in July.

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