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Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.

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The band was willfully ironic and averse to canonization. An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs ...

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When we’re in a scene together, I’m just watching you in awe.” Susie Essman: “How lucky we are to be in the presence of such ...

Twist ,” by the Irish author Colum McCann, projects an impatience with the idea that our individual and subjective experiences of the internet have much more meaning to yield. Instead, the book takes ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The experimental folk musician and a music historian wander around SoHo in search of long-lost friends and neighbors.

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