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  • Essay

    The Culture Wars Invade Science Fiction

    Online campaigners are pushing to give SF’s annual Hugo Awards to popular space yarns, not more literary fiction or tales of diversity.

  • Weekend Profile

    From SNL Star to Demented Dentist

    Taran Killam, who had a role in “12 Years a Slave” and has published a comic book, is becoming the first “Saturday Night Live” cast member to star in a musical.

  • Icons

    Hip-Hop in the Arab World and North Africa

    A Paris exhibition shows how hip-hop spread to France, the Middle East and North Africa—and provided a beat for the Arab Spring.

  • Culture

    The Frieze Art Fair, Frame by Frame

    Camped out on Randall’s Island, Frieze New York hosts nearly 200 art galleries from around the world, all angling to lure eyes and ideally great sums of money with entrancing and bewildering works of contemporary art.

  • Television

    Letterman, the Last American Broadcaster

    David Letterman, who steps down next week after more than 30 years in late-night TV, evolved from zany oddball to great American broadcaster, one without peer in his ability to segue from serious stuff to slapstick.

  • Books

    10 Books to Read This Summer

    A look at big fiction titles to be released this summer.