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  2. PhotoTop, from left: Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu founded the Chinatown Art Brigade to oppose gentrification of New York’s Chinatown neighborhood.
    CreditJingyu Lin for The New York Times

    Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate

    Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says.

    By Aruna D’Souza

    1. PhotoThe Climate Clock now displays an estimated percentage of the world’s energy now being supplied by renewable sources.
      CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times

      The Climate Clock Now Ticks With a Tinge of Optimism

      The display in New York’s Union Square, which reports the window to address global warming, now also measures the rising use of renewable energy.

      By Colin Moynihan

Oscars 2021

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  1. PhotoJodie Foster, left, with her wife, Alexandra Hedison, looked the way most viewers did — only she was accepting a Golden Globe.
    CreditNBC, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

    The 6 Best Speeches of Awards Season So Far

    From a pajama-clad Jodie Foster to the teary “Minari” child star Alan S. Kim, they managed to make their acceptance speeches work from home.

    By Kyle Buchanan

  5. PhotoClockwise from top left, Daniel Kaluuya in “Judas and the Black Messiah”; Chadwick Boseman in “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”; Yuh-Jung Youn in “Minari”; and Viola Davis in “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.” All four were winners at the SAG Awards and could repeat at the Academy Awards.
    CreditClockwise from top left: Warner Bros.; David Lee/Netflix; A24; David Lee/Netflix

    Will People of Color Win All Four Acting Oscars This Year?

    Plenty of Academy Awards history could be made at this year’s ceremony, especially if the SAG Award winners repeat. Here are some records that could fall.

    By Kyle Buchanan

  1. The Essential Philip Roth

    Looking to read one of his books? Let us help.

    By Taffy Brodesser-Akner

  2. Emotions Haunt a Man for Life in Cynthia Ozick’s Tragicomic ‘Antiquities’

    In Ozick’s new novella, an elderly man recalls his alienation at a boarding school decades before and his friendship with a Jewish classmate.

    By Dwight Garner

  3. Looted Objects From Afghanistan Are Returned

    Thirty-three antiquities were handed over to the Afghan ambassador by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the Department of Homeland Security.

    By Tom Mashberg

  4. Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing)

    Jonathan Ames, known for his confessional essays and TV shows like “Bored to Death,” tries his hand at a detective novel with “A Man Named Doll.”

    By Adam Sternbergh

  5. With ‘Knives Out’ Deal, Netflix Signals It’s in the Franchise Business

    The streaming gold rush of 2017-18, when Netflix scooped up big-name television creators, now seems to have migrated to the film world.

    By Nicole Sperling

  6. What’s on TV This Week: The Oscars and a Greta Thunberg Documentary

    This year’s Academy Awards ceremony airs on ABC. And PBS airs a three-part documentary pegged to Earth Day.

    By Gabe Cohn

  7. What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry

    Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever?

    By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris

  8. Nonfiction

    Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking

    In “Hawking Hawking,” Charles Seife offers a portrait of the famous theoretical physicist and tries to unpack his place in popular culture.

    By Frank Wilczek

  9. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War

    Louis Menand’s new book about art and thought in the postwar years features a very large cast, including George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag and the Beatles.

    By Marc Tracy

  10. The Oscars Are a Week Away, but How Many Will Watch?

    TV ratings for awards shows have been in free fall, especially during the pandemic, and Hollywood doesn’t want the viewing public to toss its premier showcase into the entertainment dustbin.

    By Nicole Sperling and Brooks Barnes