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When the Writing Demands Talent and Discretion, Call the Ghostwriter

Ghostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a…

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Pope Benedict Wasn’t Conservative. He Was Something Much More Surprising.

“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the…

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Biden Will Mark Jan. 6 With Presidential Medals for Election Officials

The Presidential Citizens Medal will honor those who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including law enforcement officers and…

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The Meaning of the Chaos in the House

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‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld

In Deepti Kapoor’s cinematic novel, a young man from the provinces falls in with a powerful crime syndicate.

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Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence

In “The Inspection,” he plays a drill instructor who takes a bullied recruit under his wing, the kind of nurturing…

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Read Your Way Through Tokyo

Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination.…

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Does a Newly Elected G.O.P. Assemblyman Really Live in Brooklyn?

Lester Chang, a newly elected Republican representing a Brooklyn district, faces questions over whether he lives in the borough or…

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A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth

The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…

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Surprise in Pennsylvania: Republicans Back a (Former?) Democrat for Speaker

Representative Mark Rozzi, long a moderate Democrat, pledged not to caucus with either party as speaker of the closely divided…

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