In 1943, in wartime England, a homeless person dies in the street after ingesting rat poison. Given a fake postmortem identity by British counterintelligence officers —...
At a certain point, we have to start feeling bad for the last five famous actors who have not yet appeared on a lighthearted streaming murder...
A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube In the almost five years since the release of “Whole Lotta Red,” Playboi Carti’s second...
Hong Kong is a difficult place to run an independent bookshop. Rents are high and space is limited, but navigating the law has also become harder...
J.B. Moore, an advertising man from suburban Long Island who wrote the lyrics to one of rap’s first hits — Kurtis Blow’s 1979 novelty song, “Christmas...
“Shared Custody” is a light divorce drama, though it is perhaps better seen as a cellphone drama: the buzzing, the ringing, the texting, the “just one...
Lenny Schultz, a wild-eyed comedian who became known in the 1970s and ’80s for high-energy performances that he delivered with a mouthful of sound effects and...
The Cleveland Orchestra showed up at Carnegie Hall this week without a star. When the music director Franz Welser-Möst planned the ensemble’s two-night visit to New...
Yet Picasso himself was not interested in spawning a following, said Anne Baldassari, one of the world’s foremost Picasso scholars. Baldassari was the president of the...