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Saudi Press Agency / AP When Donald Trump Touched the Magic Orb
Two years ago today, the U.S. president, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took an iconic photograph.
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Walter McBride / Corbis / Getty Viceland’s Dark Side of the Ring Shows the Sleaze and Humanity of Wrestling
The series explores the disaster and reality of the shadowy sport.
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Ori Toor What Song Exploder Has Taught Us
How the hit podcast has revealed the creative process of artists as diverse as Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, and Lorde
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Patrick Leger The Lost Art of Deadline Writing
A new anthology of sportswriting celebrates the poetry written in the press box.
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Jon Savage Deciphering the Mystery of Joy Division
A new book explores how the group turned itself into a portal for some of the most alien and beautiful information ever to be broadcast through the medium of a rock-and-roll band.
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Oliver Morris / Getty Images The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
In the time since the publication of Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal novel, the work has never gotten old and it’s never waned in energy.
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Hsiao-Ron Cheng Killing It With Kindness
Ellen DeGeneres, daytime superstar, is itching to try something new. But America needs the old Ellen more than ever before.
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Kevin Winter / FOX / ImageDirect How Aerosmith and Run-DMC Begrudgingly Made a Masterpiece
Initially, neither group was excited about collaborating for “Walk This Way.” The rest is history.
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Jack Mitchell / Getty Wes Anderson Is Under Edward Gorey’s Spell
He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up.
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AFP / Getty Images The Feud That Birthed the Electric Guitar
Les Paul and Leo Fender were fierce competitors. Their rivalry led them both in the same direction—toward the creation of the solid-bodied instrument that changed the course of rock music.
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Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Royal Council / Anadolu ... When Donald Trump Touched the Magic Orb
Every presidency has iconic photographs. But there’s nothing else like this one.
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Netflix Netflix Captures the Doom and Dread of Watership Down
The series taps into the timeliness (and timelessness) of stories about oppressive political systems.
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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
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Hulton Deutsch / Corbis Historical / Getty The Misremembering of Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That is arguably the war veteran and literary stalwart’s best work, but a new biography ignores its impact.
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Apple Corps Ltd. What the Beatles Sounded Like Unedited
Fifty years after its debut, The White Album has been reissued to include demos and sessions, giving listeners a wider lens through which to examine the seminal work from the band.
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Rune Fisker Jack Reacher Still Won’t Quit, 23 Books Later
The literary hero’s coffee-chugging, cigarette-devouring creator, Lee Child, just released his latest novel. He shows no signs of slowing down.
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Chris Carroll / Getty R.E.M., in Retrospect
With R.E.M. at the BBC, the band culls together 104 songs for a vast and slightly dizzying retrospective.
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Michael Putland / Getty The Bizarre Beat of Yoko Ono’s Drum
In her new album, Warzone, the artist updates songs from her catalog, but misses the mark more often than not.
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Cathal Duane Paul McCartney Can’t Stop Making People Happy
Now 76, with a new album, the pop legend continues to delight and comfort the world with his music.
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Mara Vivat / Getty How To Write About Royalty
In 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, the author Craig Brown captures Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister perfectly.
