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The defensive Secretary of War.

Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

“Hamnet,” a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare’s famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory?