Adams Makes the Case for New York and for Himself

In his State of the City address, the mayor focused on safety and affordability and only briefly alluded to his own challenging circumstances.

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Richard Foreman, Iconoclastic Playwright and Impresario, Dies at 87

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.”

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Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85

He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.

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With New Amazon Prime Show ‘On Call,’ Dick Wolf Enters Streaming

For decades, Dick Wolf has dominated prime- time programming. Now, at 78, he has plans to conquer his next world: streaming.

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Marie Winn, Who Wrote of a Famous Central Park Hawk, Dies at 88

She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.

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David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89

His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.

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Another Way Jimmy Carter Bested His Fellow Presidents

The longest-lived president also wrote more best-selling books than any modern president — and had the fewest written about him.

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Going to a Real-Life Version of Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo

On a trip to Colombia to see the Netflix production of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a reporter was struck by memories of real places.

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Michel del Castillo, 91, Dies; Child’s-Eye Chronicler of Concentration Camps

His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”

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Jacques Roubaud, Poetic Master of Form and Whimsy, Dies at 92

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

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