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Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wandered and Other Stories; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.

A history of how risk management profits from manufacturing new forms of uncertainty and insecurity.