YOKO: The Biography, by David Sheff Here’s the thing about Yoko Ono, the artist and widow of the murdered rock star John Lennon (usually not identified...
2. Dolly Parton: “Two Doors Down” In this perky 1977 hit from Parton’s pop crossover era, the narrator is nursing a broken heart when she hears...
FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, by Christine Wenc When I told a very funny editor that a new book...
In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played...
M. Paul Friedberg, a landscape architect whose playgrounds, pocket parks and plazas transformed once-gritty areas of New York City, using familiar urban materials to do so,...
Rutherford Chang, a conceptual artist who turned his collection of the Beatles’ “White Album” into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic — and...
Writing in character is “one of my favorite tools of empathy,” Eilish said, and was often easier than writing unadorned about her own life, although the...
The Met Cloisters were alive with the sound of music on a frigid January afternoon. Six nuns in white surrounded a seventh dressed in black, and...
