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The French actor Alain Delon projected a cool, rebellious streak in life and his films. Questions arose when one of his associates turned up dead, writes Tom Nolan https://t.co/fCMP2m1yko

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Bob Woodward’s specialty is reporting stories for which he has guaranteed anonymity to those who talked to him. He now violates that promise, writes @tunkuv https://t.co/h8TXK1YVfS

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11 Books We Read This Week: Real-estate frontiers, J.R.R. Tolkien’s deep vision, what the nose knows and more. https://t.co/MFRHJpsFAJ

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Washington Irving’s story, set in New York’s Hudson Valley, has been a touchstone for the Halloween business and seasonal tourism, writes William Tipper https://t.co/xAEKXBYodj

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Tom Drury returns to the world of Grouse County, whose denizens are getting older yet still maintain their human idiosyncrasies, writes Sam Sacks https://t.co/PsPTywR7hE

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Evan Gershkovich was aware of being tailed. What he did not know was that he was being targeted as a bargaining chip, writes Julia M. Klein
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Where Barbie presented a grown-up future, the American Girl dolls and their companion books encouraged children to be children, writes Nicole Schrag https://t.co/izYeQ2PVQ0

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Fall Books: The Gold Rush, the beauty of bogs, Larry David’s comedy, a Hemingway masterpiece and more from our collection of the season’s noteworthy books. https://t.co/bWKWn6OczL

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Pundits and academics theorizing about Justice Samuel Alito’s aims would profit from reading his speeches, writes Barton Swaim https://t.co/btORcueXUB

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In Arthur R.G. Solmssen’s novel, a roundtable meant to promote postwar rebuilding gets co-opted by realpolitik, writes Michael O’Donnell https://t.co/3blb9S7uLx

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David M. Rubenstein, who acquired the Baltimore Orioles in 2024 for $1.7 billion, sought insight from his peers about successful team ownership, writes David M. Shribman https://t.co/VrfMrtQrtk

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The author of “Pachinko” follows members of a Korean-American family as they find careers in the world of supplementary education, writes Sam Sacks https://t.co/Z8zta1hIoA

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14 Books We Read This Week: The Hindenburg disaster, wonder drugs, Marian Anderson’s voice, a rock ’n’ roll alternate history and more. https://t.co/RHSrBBT65l

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Neal Schore argues that paying attention to emotions is the most important element in an efficient workday, writes Barbara Spindel https://t.co/mMG1rU5Dfg

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"Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings" Review: Successful Circumstances

Favorable weather aided Genghis Khan’s conquests. Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls with the Patriots but also had Tom Brady, writes Andrew Stark https://t.co/7rwyaNht3a

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Francis Fukuyama looks back on the book that put his ideas on the world stage—and the misunderstanding that has dogged him since, writes @tunkuv https://t.co/9ZBqIMCASV

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Roy Cohn was Sen. Joe McCarthy’s fixer and for decades a gifted attention-seeker. The tendency to overstate his influence lives on, writes Philip Terzian https://t.co/eLrAl49qch

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Music in the U.S. has flowed from political upheaval and produced social change, but not always in the ways we might expect, writes David Skinner
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Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled. The illusion worked too well, writes Matthew Hutson https://t.co/ad6GmbHDPa

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The Five Nations of the Iroquois allied with several English colonies. The threat was hostile French territory to the north, writes Stephen Brumwell https://t.co/7yaAfWdKoB