How Kendrick Lamar’s Performances Led Him to the Super Bowl Halftime Show
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How Kendrick Lamar’s Performances Led Him to the Super Bowl Halftime Show

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Kendrick Lamar performs like someone parceling out a secret. On the 2015 single “King Kunta,” he stage-whispers, “I swore I wouldn’t tell,” and then proceeds to flaunt industry gossip without naming names. Though the Grammy-hoarding, Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper has mastered literary opacity in…

Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
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Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori…

Han Kang Talks About Her Jeju Book, ‘We Do Not Part”
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Han Kang Talks About Her Jeju Book, ‘We Do Not Part”

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles…

Will Cuomo Run for Mayor? Racial Politics Complicate His Decision.
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Will Cuomo Run for Mayor? Racial Politics Complicate His Decision.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Andrew M. Cuomo has been here before. In 2002, fresh off a stint as the nation’s housing secretary, Mr. Cuomo decided to run for governor of New York. Fellow Democrats already had a well-liked Black candidate in mind, H. Carl McCall, but Mr….

5 Scenes That Define David Lynch’s ‘Lynchian’ Vision
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5 Scenes That Define David Lynch’s ‘Lynchian’ Vision

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The directorial thumbprint of David Lynch spawned its own adjective decades ago, perhaps most thoroughly codified by the writer David Foster Wallace. Sent by Premiere magazine to the set of Lynch’s 1997 film “Lost Highway,” Wallace gave a definition of Lynchian: “a particular…

Pope Francis’ Autobiography, Long in the Making, Arrives in Bookstores
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Pope Francis’ Autobiography, Long in the Making, Arrives in Bookstores

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “I like punctuality, it’s a virtue I have learned to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth chapter of his autobiography, to be published on Tuesday in 18 languages, adding that he considers it “a sign of good manners and respect, to arrive…

Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.
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Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source