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He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.

Francis Fukuyama’s famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.

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Francis Fukuyama sees the current plight of liberal democracy not as a rebuke to his earlier work but as a vindication.
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How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

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“I don’t go to novels to be safe,” Marlon James said. “I go to novels to be titillated, to be scared, to be educated, to be frightened — honestly, to be appalled.”
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Ina Garten Says You Can Either Get on Her Train or Get Out of the Way

At 78, the cookbook author and Food Network host knows what she likes, knows what she wants and isn’t stopping anytime soon.

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Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon

In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture.

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A video projection of “Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict,” by Yayoi Kusama, in 2024. In her later years, Kusama was one of the most popular living artists in the world.
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As a Storyteller, Tim Curry Had the Gift

He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”
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