Born in 1945, in Dublin, to a pre-eminent family of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe is one the ...

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Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...

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The director wasted no time cementing his style with his debut feature film, They Live by Night, a gritty and punishing noir that still captures Ray's sentimentality. The 1948 movie starring Farley ...

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A 16th century painting of Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk, has become the most expensive Elizabethan portrait to date ...