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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac’ Is a Mystical Memory Tour

Like a cosmological comic, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination.

Arts

Toby Keith Was More Than Mere Bluster

His choice to become a post-9/11 culture-war champion overshadowed the work of a musician who was funnier, subtler and more…

World

Is Poor Economic Sentiment All About MAGA?

The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the…

World

Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed

Interest rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this…

World

Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump

After Joe Biden’s speech on Friday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes…

Real Estate

$3 Million Homes in California

A Victorian rowhouse in San Francisco, a 1966 ranch house in Malibu and a three-bedroom home in Menlo Park.

Arts

A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included

Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.

Health

How a Millennial Estée Lauder Built a Widely Popular Beauty Brand

Karissa Bodnar played on her customers’ desire to belong to something bigger than … well, beauty.

World

Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78

She wrote about the leading figures in ballet and modern dance for more than 40 years. One of her books…

World

I Finally Figured Out Who ChatGPT Reminds Me Of

As the mother of an 8-year-old, and as someone who’s spent the past year experimenting with generative A.I., I’ve thought…

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