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Two summer suspense novels delight in overturning the 'woman-in-trouble' plot

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Russell Craig, "Cognitive Thinking," 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Ford Foundation Gallery hide caption

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From prison to art gallery, former inmates take center stage

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Artist Francoise Gilot appears during an interview with Reginald Bosanquet in London on March 3, 1965, in connection with the publication of her book, My Life With Picasso. Bob Dear/AP hide caption

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Teo Yoo as Hae Sung and Greta Lee as Nora in Past Lives. Jon Pack/Twenty Years Rights/A24/A24 hide caption

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Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 15. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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How the SCOTUS 'Supermajority' is shaping policy on everything from abortion to guns

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Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in court in New York on Jan. 22, 2020. The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, File, Pool hide caption

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Rob Rubba, winner of the Outstanding Chef award at the 2023 James Beard Restaurant And Chef Awards. Jeff Schear/Getty Images for The James Beard Foundation hide caption

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'Lesbian Love Story' unearths a century of queer romance

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Books We Love: Love Stories

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This 2019 photo shows the main dining room inside Moscow's iconic Metropol Hotel, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption

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'The Red Hotel': Trying to cover World War II from a 'gilded cage' in Moscow

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