People have been telling fantastical tales about the past since, well … most likely long before our ancestors began painting caves with wild beasts that danced...
Jeff Bridges taught her how to drive in his Volkswagen bus. Steven Spielberg refused to flirt with her. She successfully talked the actor Rip Torn out...
“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality,...
Which they are, of course, but not in a conventional way. After that setup, the show travels to 1791 then moves forward in time in a...
It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its...
The star power of women’s sports is shining brighter than ever. Last year, the basketball sensation Caitlin Clark helped lift the Indiana Fever to an astonishing...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts institution, has announced that its president, Gina Duncan, will step down when her contract expires in June after...
A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books, including Megan Collins’s playful crossbreeding of...
WE TRIED TO TELL Y’ALL: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, by Meredith D. Clark Do you remember where you were in early December...
Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group biography of the Tudor queens’...
