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Jeremy Strong on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile of him still ...

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The Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and ...

“Pa?” Shawn ventured. He stood slightly behind Chee Meng, at a distance from the prone man. Though barely nine, he knew that ...