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Arts
A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse
A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style, and hint at the ways it might have restrained him.
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Arts
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Revisits His ‘Illusion of Suffering’ on Broadway
As with so many family reunion plays, the squabbling Lafayette siblings in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” dislodge their share of skeletons from the closets of their childhood home, a former plantation in southern Arkansas. But here those ...
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World
The U.S. Must Change Course on Gaza Today
We are no strangers to human suffering — to conflict, to natural disasters, to some of the world’s largest and gravest catastrophes. We were there when fighting erupted in Khartoum, Sudan. As bombs rained down on Ukraine. When earthquakes leveled ...
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Arts
Golden Globes 2024 Snubs and Surprises: ‘Past Lives,’ Taylor Swift and More
The Korean American drama from Celine Song got four nominations, while Swift’s concert film got one. “The Color Purple” was overlooked for best musical.
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Arts
David Mamet, a.k.a. ‘Embittered Dave,’ Would Like a Word
In a new memoir, the filmmaker and playwright shares his opinions on Hollywood past and present.
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World
Guatemala’s Antigraft Crusader Won in a Landslide. Will He Actually Take Office?
When the anticorruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential race, voters streamed into the capital of Central America’s most populous country to celebrate. But as Mr. Arévalo’s foes intensify efforts to bar ...
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Business
Hello, I Do Not Work Seven Days a Week
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Boundaries, aka, I Am Not a Brain Surgeon Employers, as you ...
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Arts
‘Bzzz’ Turns Art Forms of Solo Virtuosity Into a Group Affair
The tap dancer Caleb Teicher and the beatboxer Chris Celiz have expanded an earlier collaboration into an evening-length work at the Joyce Theater.
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Arts
Review: This ‘Magic Flute’ at the Met Lacks Some Luster
Mozart’s opera, tailored to families in this staging, is big on spectacle and let’s-put-on-a-show verve. What shines? Kathryn Lewek as Queen of the Night.
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World
Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round
The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.