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Three Ice-Cream Sundaes for the Start of Summer
[ad_1] I believe that the single best dessert a person can have after a satisfying restaurant meal involves walking five to eight city blocks to a nearby ice-cream shop, to...
Why Tom Cruise Will Never Die
[ad_1] By constantly putting his life at risk, Cruise has saved his career. The stunts have become so vital to the franchise that Cruise and McQuarrie have taken to planning...
How American Photography Came Into Its Own
[ad_1] The earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in this particular, startlingly realistic way. People were especially intrigued...
Summer Culture Preview
[ad_1] High-stakes competition makes for high drama in “F1 the Movie” (June 27), directed by Joseph Kosinski, starring Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver who is forced out of...
What It’s Like to Root for the Knicks
[ad_1] I’m not always so good at taking notes on basketball games that I plan to write about, especially if my haunted team, the New York Knicks, is among the...
The Emotional Seesaw of the Knicks’ Playoff Run
[ad_1] I’m not always so good at taking notes on basketball games that I plan to write about, especially if my haunted team, the New York Knicks, is among the...
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests
[ad_1] “The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888 play “Miss Julie,” setting out a catalogue of revolutionary...
Colum McCann’s Limp Novel of Digital Life
[ad_1] Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but perhaps they’ve just made the same points...
R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise
[ad_1] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was nine when his uncle was murdered and fourteen when his father was. Even in his youth, he recalled, he doubted that Oswald had acted alone....
Times Square’s Revolving Restaurant Comes Around Again
[ad_1] Seeing New York City from above—from the upper deck of the Empire State Building, or from the window of an airplane making an up-the-Hudson approach to LaGuardia Airport—is always...
