In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House. By Fintan O’Toole As a child, he discovered that his ...

As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black. By Richard Sandomir In “Presence,” the ...

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