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A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making
Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form.
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Lyndon Johnson Was No Friend of Martin Luther King Jr.
We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…
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Two Years Since a Sudden Collapse, Keyontae Johnson Is Proving He’s OK
On Dec. 12, 2020, Keyontae Johnson collapsed during a game. Now, he’s a key member of the Kansas State men’s…
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Why Bother to Make Resolutions if We Don’t Keep Them?
If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709-84), a lifelong resolver and by…
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How Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim Came to Appear in ‘Knives Out’ Sequel
A fan of musical theater, Rian Johnson had long hoped to land the two stars. But he was already the…
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‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink
A new production of Denis Johnson’s final play showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and…
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Reclaiming a Place in Animation History for a Female Pioneer
The pioneers of hand-drawn animation were all men — or at least that is what historians (men, almost exclusively) have…
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Man Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of 3 Women in Queens Home
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Virginia in connection with the killings of three women — a mother, her daughter…