Saturday, August 4, 2018

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Books

The Book Everyone in the Netherlands Is Talking About Is Finally Coming to the U.S.

Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother and wrote a book about it. Now he’s on trial for murder, and she’s in hiding.

morals

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Opinion

A Dictatorship Is Rising in My Country, Again

Nearly four decades after the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dynasty, Nicaragua is once again in the grip of tyranny.

"Action now" is disaster.

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Podcasts

How Paul Manafort’s Plans Backfired

The story of the former Trump campaign chairman and his ties to foreign governments begins long before the 2016 election.

Bad judgement and excessive greed.

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World

Pompeo Warns Turkey on Detained U.S. Pastor: The Clock Has ‘Run Out’

The imprisonment of Andrew Brunson prompted sanctions from the Trump administration. But the Turkish foreign minister said harsh tactics would not work.

Turkey is a sovereign nation.
Mr. Brunson is a criminal by Turkish law.

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Opinion

The Great God of Depression

How mental illness stopped being “a terrible dark secret.”

Public confession.

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Well

My Father Staged His Suicide to Look Like a Murder

Even with answers about his sensational death, I have unresolved questions about his complicated life.
World

Sweden’s Tallest Peak Shrinks in Record Heat

Soaring temperatures are melting snow and ice from Kebnekaise’s southern peak, making the northern part of the mountain Sweden’s highest point.
Books

The Woman Who Created a Monster

For the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein,” the poet Fiona Sampson has written a new biography of its author: “In Search of Mary Shelley.”
Arts

Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art

The latest in a series initiated in 1998 by two Chelsea art dealers, “Painting: Now and Forever, Part III” examines the medium’s turn toward figuration.
Business Day

Follow the Money (Then Take a Picture)

With “Generation Wealth,” the filmmaker Lauren Greenfield looks back at 30 years of chronicling the rich — and predicting our cultural future.


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