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Audiobook of the Week: ‘The Fraud,’ by Zadie Smith

The author reads her latest novel about literary prestige, empire and a case of false identity that captivated 19th-century England.

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Harry Smith Was a Culture-Altering Shaman. Can the Whitney Contain Him?

A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also…

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The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.

Sports

Eyeing Expanding Revenue, N.F.L. Players Tap a Business Executive to Lead Their Union

Lloyd Howell Jr. was elected executive director of the union, replacing DeMaurice Smith, as gambling, new media and an expanding…

Magazine

With a New, Improved ‘Einstein,’ Puzzlers Settle a Math Problem

Earlier this spring, tiling aficionados thought maybe they’d found the shape of their dreams. Now they’re certain.

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Clint Smith’s Back-to-Back, Genre-Spanning Best Sellers

In 2021, “How the Word Is Passed” was on the hardcover nonfiction list for five weeks. Now Smith is back…

Business

Who Was Rupert Murdoch’s Two-Week Fiancée?

The planned summer wedding of the 92-year-old media mogul and Ann Lesley Smith is said to have been called off.…

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Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Strikes Back

A year after Will Smith slapped him at the Oscars, Rock responded fiercely in a new stand-up special, Netflix’s first…

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Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur

This streetlight mystic shows her painterly photography at MoMA in an archive that celebrates long exposures and perceptual improvisation.

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Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match

On the British musician’s fourth album, “Gloria,” Smith puts aside ballads for more danceable tracks that show flashes of boldness,…

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