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‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors,’ by Kawai Strong Washburn: An Excerpt
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When I close my eyes we’re all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us. The myth people tell about us might start on that liquid blue...
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New & Noteworthy Poetry Books
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DEEP GOSSIP: New and Selected Poems, by Sidney Wade. (Johns Hopkins University, paper, $19.95.) With short lines and sly, syncopated rhymes, Wade’s nature poems...
sports
Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for July 23-Aug. 8 in 2021
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The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place ...
world
Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines to April 30 as U.S. Cases Top 140,000
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The global count has passed 700,000, an official warns Britain that some kind of lockdown may last for months and Joe Biden urges mail-in elections. This briefi...
world
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Cross 113,000: Live Updates
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At least 17 states reported tallies of at least 1,000 infections. Illinois reported the first known U.S. death of an infant with the virus. This briefing has en...
arts
The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection
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Beethoven at 250 Nine crucial works. The best recording of each. It’s Beethoven’s 250th birthday year, and concert halls all over the world were going to resoun...
books
Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives
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This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a...
world
Trump Signs $2 Trillion Bill as U.S. Virus Cases Pass 100,000
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President Trump, who had questioned the need for additional ventilators, pushed industry to make more. A new survey of mayors found dire shortages of urgently n...
sports
Sports franchises could qualify for loans with coronavirus relief bill
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Sports franchises across the country could be getting some help from the federal government to keep hourly and low-salaried workers employed. As part of the $2...
world
U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Cases
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Unemployment data set a bleak record and hospitals struggled with an influx of sick patients and lack of equipment. But the White House coronavirus response coo...
sports
IOC reportedly working toward July-August Olympics in 2021
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and hopes to co...
business
When to Restart the Economy?
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Want this delivered to your inbox each morning? Sign up here. President Trump has a new aspiration: to “have the country opened up” by Easter, on April 12. It’s...