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Hamas has released the last twenty living Israeli hostages. What comes next in the ceasefire negotiations is likely to be far more complicated. But, first, decades after a young man’s mysterious death in Australia, Eren Orbey reports on critical new information in the case. Plus:

The A.I. bet propping up the economy

Richard Linklater’s two new movies about anxious artists

Can this jeweler-turned-reverend save the world?

Scott Johnson’s fall from a cliff top near Sydney was deemed a suicide. His brother became convinced that Scott had been the victim of a hate crime. Photograph by Adam Ferguson for The New York

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