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Whitney Houston, Pop Singer With a Giant Voice, Died at 48
Whitney Elizabeth Houston, the giant-voiced pop singer who sold more records than any female star before her, died on February 11th aged 48. Her gift carried her from…
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Explore books, arts, sport and the ideas shaping cultural life. This collection examines creative work, institutions and social trends through reviews, commentary and explanatory articles.
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Johnny Cash Dies at 71: ‘Man in Black’ Obituary in Brief
J.R. Cash, the 'Man in Black' who recorded over 1,500 songs across six decades, died on September 12th aged 71 — four months after his wife June Carter…
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Why Hollywood Can’t Stop Adapting Classic Novels
From Sense and Sensibility to East of Eden, Hollywood is mining classic novels. The boom is comforting and commercial — and it is sending readers back to the…
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What to Watch This Week: Bad Apples and Sense and Sensibility
Three of the week's four picks are moral dramas about harm done in the name of virtue. The fourth is a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and…
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Fortunes and Tenements: Six Essential Books on America’s Gilded Age
From Edith Wharton’s drawing rooms to Rockefeller’s monopoly, Haymarket, Reconstruction and tenement reform, six books explain America’s Gilded Age of fortunes and tenements.
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Six Essential Books on America’s Founding Fathers
From the collaborative drama of the 1790s to the personal paradox of slavery at Monticello, these six books reveal the founders as politicians, rivals and flawed humans whose…
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How Enablers Made Carlos the Jackal and a Texas Jailhouse Snitch
A worldly Venezuelan terrorist and a Texan jailhouse informant lived wildly different lives. Two new biographies argue both thrived because systems rewarded their worst impulses.
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Why museums are courting billionaire patrons as corporate cash fades
As public funding shrinks in real terms and corporate sponsors retreat, Britain's museums are turning to billionaire patrons — bringing money, prestige and new complications.
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Robert Harris Agrippa review: Timely Rome epic misses Cicero heights
Robert Harris returns to ancient Rome in Agrippa, a timely novel of friendship and power told by Augustus's general — more accessible than Gibbon, but blunter than his…
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Hyrox: Why the Hybrid Fitness Race Is Booming Worldwide
Hyrox mixes eight 1km runs with strength stations like sleds, rowing and burpees. From 650 starters in Hamburg in 2017, it expects more than 2m racers across six…