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The Ken Burns of YouTube Jon Bois makes documentaries about athletes named Bob, baseball brawls, and the worst team in N.B.A. history. Why are they so moving?

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The AIR MAIL Diary The Chinese love disasters! The Italians hate texters! Nobody will visit North Korea! And other strange stories from around the globe …


The Nostalgia Doom Loop From the box office to the ballot box, America is stuck in reverse

The Mourning Edition After 9/11, The New York Times’s Portraits of Grief became a defining memorial to those killed at the World Trade Center—but not every family welcomed what the paper chose to remember

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Surf’s Up! A dazzling new coffee-table book captures five decades of American surfing culture through Jeff Divine’s lens

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Invisible Men Marlon James’s Booker-long-listed novel confronts a brutal act of violence against a group of gay men in 1980s Jamaica

Cohn Job In American Scoundrel, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird turns his attentions to Roy Cohn, fixer to Donald Trump and Joseph McCarthy


Pucci Undercover Emilio Pucci’s niece traces the remarkable tale of how the designer risked his life smuggling essential files to the Allies during World War II

Home Sweet Home The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval embroidery that has long fascinated storytellers such as George R. R. Martin, returns to England for the first time in 1,000 years

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The Long Goodbye For the final days of summer and the first days of everything else. The things worth having on both sides of the season

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“I Know Those Guys” Before he met Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi learned everything he needed to know to write Goodfellas in Bensonhurst

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