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    Judith Butler Thinks You’re Overreacting

    How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject...

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    Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98

    After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a...

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    A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.

    When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired...

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    Opinion | When Language Fails Us and the Moment

    Plain, direct language remains rare and desirable — and risky in ways that those in authority,...

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    Overlooked No More: Beatrix Potter, Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’

    She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book...

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    Margaret Cavendish: A Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London

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    Excerpts From Dr. Claudine Gay’s Work

    Here are five examples of work by President Claudine Gay of Harvard that have been spotlighted...

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    Jeff Koons Killed Her Review

    The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay...

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    Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101

    As the producer of “All in the Family” and many other shows, Mr. Lear showed that...