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Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Pull of the Stars’ sets a gripping story in the midst of the 1918 flu pandemic
Cartoonists salute the John Lewis they knew or turned to for inspiration
One artist draws the late congressman as a soaring “Freedom Rider,” while another pictures him on the “John Lewis Bridge.”
What to watch this weekend: ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ on TNT
Saturday July 18 and Sunday | Shark Fest begins on Nat Geo.
Garry Trudeau is spoofing the Trump presidency by treating it as ‘a hostile takeover’
The “Doonesbury” creator says his new book “Lewser!” aims to show how Trump is “privatizing the gain while socializing the pain.”
Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan, 3 family members test positive
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, his son and two other family memners have tested positive for the coronavirus in Mumbai
How Putin pushed aside the oligarchs and made Russia his own
An alliance between security services and the mob aided his rise, Catherine Belton writes.
An undiscovered library: My wife’s books
Our literary tastes are very different. Then quarantine left me looking for something to read.
Camilla Läckberg’s ‘The Golden Cage’ is a psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things
Läckberg has been dubbed “the Swedish Agatha Christie” — but Christie never wrote sex scenes like this.
Singer Tom Meighan leaves Kasabian amid ‘personal issues’
British rockers Kasabian say frontman Tom Meighan has left the band to deal with personal issues
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are the pandemic’s only tabloid celebrities
Affleck and de Armas manage to be riveting during the coronavirus era in a way that other celebrities simply are not.
There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore
Shuttered bookstores are a reminder of how much of our reading lives is a process of discovery and happenstance.
Style Invitational Week 1390: Same differences — our compare/contrast game
Featuring 15 random zany items. Plus the winning ‘grandfoals.’
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