Arts
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‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas
Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling with pungent life.
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After ‘Shaft,’ 8 Movies to Watch Featuring Black Action Heroes
“Shaft,” starring Richard Roundtree, created a template for Black action protagonists onscreen.
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This Kids’ Show Is ‘Indiana Jones in Reverse’
In “Curses!,” a spooky animated series debuting Friday on Apple TV+, an archaeologist’s family deals with the consequences of looted artifacts.
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The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then,’ Billed as ‘Last Song,’ Due Nov. 2
“Now and Then,” an unfinished composition from the late 1970s, was completed using technology that separated John Lennon’s vocal from a piano track.
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‘Make Noise Enough’: Excavating Shakespeare’s Songs
In Shakespeare, music is an integral part of the action. But the First Folio, which turns 400 this year, failed to transmit how it should sound.
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Review: ‘Lyonesse’ Is a Starry Mess
In London, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas do their best in a new play that careers between near-slapstick one minute and speechifying the next.
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Artists of Color Ask: When Is Visibility a Trap?
In “Going Dark” at the Guggenheim, 28 artists explore urgent questions around what it means to be seen, and to see each other.
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When the Thrill of Victory Felt Truly Thrilling
Michael MacCambridge’s “The Big Time” rewinds to the ’70s, when showy personalities and compelling rivalries turned sports into mass entertainment.
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6 Terrific Witchy Y.A. Novels
S. Isabelle, the author of “The Witchery” and its sequel, “Shadow Coven,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. novels about witches.
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PinkPantheress’s Music Broke the Internet. Up Next? Everything Else.
On a recent September evening at Nickelodeon Universe, the cavernous indoor theme park tucked into an East Rutherford, N.J. mall, the 22-year-old British pop musician PinkPantheress was perched 10 stories above the ground, gleefully waiting to ride ...