To anyone disturbed by the transformations promised by machine intelligence, Liliane Lijn might counter: everything is always in flux. The title of her exhibition at Tate St Ives, Arise Alive, captures the vitality of the machines with which she has worked since the 1960s, and her almost utopian awe at the potential of matter. A […]

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The six great rivers of the historical Punjab all rise in the High Himalayas, then chart their own paths through eastern Pakistan or northeastern India before coming together in a series of confluences until they are finally united in the majestic Indus, which empties into the Arabian Sea near Karachi. This pattern of shared origin, […]

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On August 9, 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich died in Moscow, leaving behind what Russians euphemistically call “the drawer”; that liminal repository where dangerous art waited for safer times. Fifty years later, Shostakovich Discoveries has opened that drawer, spreading out seventy-five minutes of largely unknown works like new evidence in a case we’re still trying to solve. […]

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“I’ve always had a feeling that there’s something nasty in those words, ‘I love you’ … something that insists, demands, gives rights.” So thinks Martina, halfway through this searching novel of her troubled relationship with Gustav, whose love for her will be satisfied only when she is bound to him by a band of gold. […]

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Misinterpretation, the title of Ledia Xhoga’s first novel, works on two levels. Its most literal referent is its unnamed narrator’s profession: translating and interpreting between several languages – Russian, Italian, English, her native Albanian – in New York City. But most of her life’s interpretative difficulties are not strictly linguistic; they result instead from disconnects […]

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With summer upon us, flight delays because of the shortage of trained air traffic controllers show no sign of abating. Every region in the nation is struggling to fill these crucial seats to keep jets moving efficiently, quickly and safely.

Madison Ruiz, 21, was sitting alongside a curb at the parking lot of the arcade on July 13 around 12:30 a.m. near Erskine St. and Gateway Drive in East New York when Zachary Cando, 24, driving a 2023 Genesis G80, veered and struck Ruiz.

The 42-year-old man was shot in the torso and back around 4:54 p.m. near West 122nd St. and Lenox Ave., across the street from St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem.