Out and About
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Russell Crowe is set to appear as Noah in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical-themed movie of the same name.
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The Village Voice gives high praise to a new exhibit by Israeli artist Oded Hirsch.
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Francine Prose writes on Edith Wharton for the New York Review of Books.
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Margaret Eby looks at the strange relationship between Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for The Paris Review.
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Where is the next Gloria Steinem? The New York Times wants to know.
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It’s the Haredi Western. Or a secular imagining of it, at any rate.
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Two historic portraits of Benjamin and Maria Gratz are back together in Philadelphia.
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Say hello to America’s only Black-Jewish Irish dancing champion.
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See Philip Roth take a break.
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Samuel Glazer, the inventor of drip coffee, has died at 89.
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