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In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Pawe Pawlikowski, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

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An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trump--and internal divisions among Democrats--has made the Minority Leader's path to victory harder than ever.

In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby's auction and nabbed the "Laws of Base Ball," a nineteenth-century document detailing early rules of America's pastime. Now it's worth two hundred and fifty times what he paid.

The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot.

"You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you're in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor."

"Your spirit of grace in the taffy machine's chrome arms / At Morris's Candy performing a sarabande / Unknitting and knitting again immaculate sweets."

History knows the First Lady as a hysterical widow and a lavish spender. Her most recent biographer chooses to highlight her mental fortitude and political prowess.

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century's worth of schemes for automating authorship.

At the Morgan Library's Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish on playing classical music's most notorious rivals, on Starz's new "Amadeus" reboot.