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Bill Irwin Is the O.G. Clown

Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the rubber-limbed actor chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway.

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The New Age of Reading

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

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When God Is Another Addiction

A remarkable memoir recounts a writer’s struggles with alcoholism and religious faith—and the unsettling ways in which each has fed her longing for the other.

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Everyone Can Be Migos Now

The viral “Hotel Lobby” meme, which lets users inhabit the bodies of Quavo and Takeoff using A.I., resembles a kind of digital blackface, but also speaks to a technology that makes appropriation the default.

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