In a book of “pep talks and practical advice,” the author of the memoir “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” shares 10 key ingredients to creativity....
L.J. Smith, an author of young adult novels best known for “The Vampire Diaries” series, which became a hit television drama, and for repossessing her characters...
It’s Will Smith announcing a new album. It’s “Mamma Mia!” returning to Broadway. It’s the uptick in law school applications. And it’s absolutely spring breaking in...
CHANGING MY MIND, by Julian Barnes In an essay from his collection “The Dyer’s Hand,” W.H. Auden describes his personal Eden: an “absolute monarchy, elected for...
Mr. Layton lends her gardening books, teaches her how to care for seedlings, and demonstrates how to pack delicate grapes and pears away for the winter....
“I don’t know why we have to do this over the phone,” says Arnold, speaking from Rotterdam to his estranged half brother, Jerry, in Idaho. That’s...
GLIFF, by Ali Smith A “glyph” is a character — the alphabetical kind. “Gliff,” the title of Ali Smith’s new novel, isn’t just a variant spelling;...
Compared with occasions like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the Grammys have always been a little looser and more eclectic, sartorially speaking. While there may...
The trailblazing artist and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died in January at 85, had many firsts to her name. She was, for example, the first...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a fearless artist and indefatigable supporter of her peers who brought the full complexity of contemporary Indigenous experience into unmistakable view, died on...
