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Elaine May wins best leading actress in a play for “The Waverly Gallery,” at the 73rd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 9, 2019. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) XNYT146 XNYT146

June 10, 2019 at 3:32 am

Tony Awards 2019: Seven things to know, from bathroom humor to Elaine May’s first win at 87

On Sunday night at the Tony Awards, James Corden hosted for the second time and "Hadestown" dominated a hard-working but unsurprising ceremony. Laura Linney and...

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The author Philip Roth, at home in Manhattanâ€™s Upper West Side, Jan. 5, 2018. Roth stopped writing about seven years ago, and now reads, mainly American history and modern European history. â€œReading has taken the place of writing, and constitutes the major part, the stimulus, of my thinking life,â€ Roth said. (Philip Montgomery/The New York Times)

May 22, 2018 at 9:14 pm

Philip Roth, prolific and provocative author, dies at 85

Philip Roth, whose sexually scandalous comic novel "Portnoy's Complaint" brought him literary celebrity after its publication in 1969 and who was eventually hailed as one...

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