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Van Gogh Painting Stolen After Thieves Apparently Smash Dutch Museum Entrance

An 1887 self-portrait by artist Vincent van Gogh from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Another van Gogh painting was stolen from a Dutch museum early Monday morning. Marc Deville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images hide caption

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Van Gogh Painting Stolen After Thieves Apparently Smash Dutch Museum Entrance

The painting, titled The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, was stolen early Monday morning from the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam. Police say the thieves smashed a glass entrance.

Famed Opera Singer Plácido Domingo Hospitalized Due To COVID-19 Complications

Opera singer Plácido Domingo, shown here speaking in Spain last July, said earlier this month that he tested positive for the coronavirus. Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images hide caption

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Famed Opera Singer Plácido Domingo Hospitalized Due To COVID-19 Complications

Domingo's reported hospitalization comes days after he posted a message on Facebook saying it was his "moral obligation" to reveal he tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus.

Staying At Home? Check Into Emily St. John Mandel's Haunting 'Glass Hotel'

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Staying At Home? Check Into Emily St. John Mandel's Haunting 'Glass Hotel'

Fresh Air

The author of Station Eleven weaves together stories of a hotel worker and an ultra-wealthy con man in a novel that captures how precarious life is — in a way that feels particularly resonant now.

Staying At Home? Check Into Emily St. John Mandel's Haunting 'Glass Hotel'

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'Save Yourself': Cameron Esposito Is Here To Help You Through Hard Times

Cameron Esposito speaks at the GLAAD Media Awards on April 1, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for GLAAD hide caption

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'Save Yourself': Cameron Esposito Is Here To Help You Through Hard Times

The comic couldn't have known her memoir would come out in the midst of a global pandemic. But her aptly titled book includes observations that feel eerily pertinent to these unsettling days.

'Save Yourself': Cameron Esposito Is Here To Help You Through Hard Times

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Who Feeds Fiona? Cincinnati Zookeepers Make Sure There Are No Hungry Hippos

Fiona is a 3-year-old, 1,300-pound hippo, and she's a growing girl. Her keeper, Jenna Wingate, is grateful to be able to work during the coronavirus crisis: "It feels good to be needed," she says. Lisa Hubbard/Cincinnati Zoo hide caption

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The Coronavirus Crisis

Who Feeds Fiona? Cincinnati Zookeepers Make Sure There Are No Hungry Hippos

Fiona is a 3-year-old, 1,300-pound hippo, and she's a growing girl. Her keeper, Jenna Wingate, is grateful to be able to work during the coronavirus crisis: "It feels good to be needed," she says.

Who Feeds Fiona? Cincinnati Zookeepers Make Sure There Are No Hungry Hippos

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In 'Unorthodox,' A Religious Woman Leaves Her Marriage And Her Past Behind

Shira Haas plays Esther Shapiro in Unorthodox, a four-part Netflix adaptation of Deborah Feldman's 2012 memoir. Anika Molnar/Netflix hide caption

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In 'Unorthodox,' A Religious Woman Leaves Her Marriage And Her Past Behind

The new Netflix series was inspired by Deborah Feldman's best-selling memoir about ending her arranged marriage. In the TV adaptation, the young woman leaves her home in Brooklyn and moves to Berlin.

In 'Unorthodox,' A Religious Woman Leaves Her Marriage And Her Past Behind

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Not My Job: We Quiz Fashion Expert Tim Gunn On Golf
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Not My Job: We Quiz Fashion Expert Tim Gunn On Golf

Gunn's new Amazon show is called Making the Cut, so we've invited him to play a game called "Making the putt!"

Not My Job: We Quiz Fashion Expert Tim Gunn On Golf

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Samantha Irby: 'This Is The Glamorous Life Of A Writer"
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Author Interviews

Samantha Irby: 'This Is The Glamorous Life Of A Writer"

Irby's new essay collection is Wow, No Thank You. She says it was inspired by moving from Chicago to Kalamazoo and feeling like a fish out of water, with no friends and a strange house.

Samantha Irby: 'This Is The Glamorous Life Of A Writer"

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