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Fighting Hopelessness in Treating Addiction

Readers praise a column by Nicholas Kristof about an effective program.

Arts

What’s the Greatest Jazz Record? Here’s a Clue: Miles Davis.

James Kaplan’s new book, “3 Shades of Blue,” examines the lives of Miles, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, and the…

World

This Bird Is Half Male, Half Female, and Completely Stunning

A green honeycreeper spotted on a farm in Colombia exhibits a rare biological phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphism.

Arts

No One Has Ever Read Genesis Like This

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book.

World

An Australian Watchmaker Creates His Own Path

Reuben Schoots has been trying to build a business in a country that lacks a horological heritage. It hasn’t been…

Arts

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Comedy Gold

In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly…

Health

Josh Brolin Never Thought He’d End Up in Malibu

How the “Dune” actor made a home in a place he once resisted.

Arts

The Essential James Baldwin

James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago,…

World

Nikki Haley’s Last Ditch

William of Orange was chief magistrate of the Dutch Republic when, during a seemingly hopeless defense against English and French…

Health

Why Artists Rule New York

Unlike, say, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. — one-industry towns where, more likely than not, you’re either in Hollywood or…

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