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Stuck on Stupid Are we getting stupider? The data should be taken with a grain of salt, but the headlines are harder to dismiss

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Fran Lebowitz Lays Down the Law In an interview, the author and wit casts her judgment on Labubus, leaf blowers, and needless expressions of love


The Year of Umm Kulthum The Egyptian singer’s millions of fans include Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, and Beyoncé

Connections: Special Trumpworld Edition! Play our unauthorized version of the popular game

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Modern Times A new coffee-table book gathers the work of 300 designers—among them Florence Knoll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Charles Eames—whose creations shaped midcentury style around the world

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The Worst Years of Their Lives A new book punctures the nostalgia around the World War II generation, shedding light on the trauma and neglect experienced by veterans

Raiders of the Lost Arcade Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes


The Sarkozy Redemption Tour The former French president has turned his 20 days in prison—Soggy baguettes! Plastic pillows!—into a 200-page best-selling memoir

Love Child Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid is the centerpiece of a new exhibition in London, marking the first time the 17th-century painting has gone on public view in the U.K.

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Do Not Disturb Forget Dry January. Our self-care guide sources supplies for an impossibly hydrated and high-thread-count season

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Remembering Robert Redford At a time when our country feels like it’s on fire, it’s hard to imagine a world without the actor—and his friend Paul Newman

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