Arts
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When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen
Films as different as the biopic “Till” and the thriller “Resurrection” use lengthy monologues to give female characters the chance to truly be heard.
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For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing
The studio behind stop-motion hits like ‘Coraline’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ started work on the new film in 2008 but had to wait for the technology to catch up.
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SZA Spends a Third Week Atop the Album Chart With ‘SOS’
Mariah Carey led an avalanche of Christmas songs on Billboard’s singles chart as holiday music lingered into the last week of 2022.
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Tanks and Teddy Bears: Ukrainian Children Paint the War
An artist from Lviv has brought works by young people affected by the Russian invasion to a museum in Chicago’s Ukrainian enclave.
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The Gay Rights Movement Before the Gay Rights Movement
In his debut novel, “The New Life,” Tom Crewe reimagines the lives of two pioneers who studied, and supported, homosexuality in 19th-century England.
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In the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Novel, the End of the World Is Not So Bad
Originally published in 1939, “The Hopkins Manuscript,” by the British writer R.C. Sherriff, inaugurated a genre of post-apocalyptic fiction in which a resourceful hero survives unthinkable cataclysm.
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‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’
surfacing ‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’ Using a tiny device called a Raspberry Shake, people around the world are tuning in to the earth’s vibrations. By Madeleine Morley Photographs by Peter Fisher Credit...Peter Fisher for The New York ...
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One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’
About a third into his story, the hero of “EO” — a small gray donkey — trots into a forest. It’s foreign territory for this charming beast, who once performed in a circus and is accustomed to human companionship. It’s also an important destination ...
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Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43
Born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, she was one of the first female rappers to build off the gangster rap image and sound that took off in the 1990s.
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‘Avatar’ and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking
Why do James Cameron and others experiment with this? Intended to eliminate blur, it is actually unnerving in scenes involving humans or real objects.