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THE UNDERTOW: Scenes From a Slow Civil War, by Jeff Sharlet The premise of “The Undertow,” Jeff Sharlet’s anguished new book of reportage, is...
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After a big opening last week, the country star Morgan Wallen easily takes No. 1 again with his latest album, “One Thing at a...
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Gross is dismayed by the atmosphere of pessimism that prevails among policymakers. It’s as though, he writes, they “can’t imagine what ethical, effective, democratic...
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BENJAMIN BANNEKER AND US: Eleven Generations of an American Family, by Rachel Jamison Webster with Edith Lee Harris, Robert Lett, Gwen Marable and Edwin...
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Could there be a more excruciatingly awkward TV character than Tom Wambsgans in “Succession”? Played with understated comic glee by the British actor Matthew...
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Given the plethora of recent cultural productions that center extreme ontological uncertainty (think of TV series like “Westworld,” “Russian Doll” and “Peripheral”), it’s a...
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GUARDIANS OF THE VALLEY: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite, by Dean King It’s a brave thing, to write about John Muir....
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“You know what, we’ve been saying for years that one of these days, we’re going to wake up, and Trump will have been arrested...
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“I lost so much hair last year — just stress,” she said. “It’s growing back, in, like, little sprouts. It’s a whole thing.” Then...
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Season 2, Episode 3: ‘Chapter Eleven’ Della Street has Perry Mason’s number. She has just learned of the suicide of their former client Emily...
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Andre Royo practically glows with pleasure as he walks onstage at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. That’s the first surprise at “Drinking...
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Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel, THIRST FOR SALT (Tin House, 262 pp., paperback, $16.95), opens by describing a photograph that shows a man and a...
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Abigail Williams is described by Arthur Miller in “The Crucible” as a “strikingly beautiful girl” of 17 with “an endless capacity for dissembling.” Lusty...
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Some artists earn the “multi-hyphenate” label by doing two or three things. But Douglas R. Ewart works on a whole other level. That much...
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But the movement in “Pit” — which also shows the influences of Martha Graham’s technique in its low, deep pliés in second position, and...
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“To center myself this morning, I wrote a list of things I love and things I hate,” the actor Zoë Chao said on a...
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Starter episode: “Breaking the Cycle w/Marissa Hackett” Come for the satisfying pun in the title, stay for the deeply researched chronicles of all kinds...
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X had a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art; she wrote seminal novels under various pseudonyms; one of her scripts was filmed...
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4 Cirque D’Hiver We were just in Paris and went to the French circus, and it was the best thing we did. The band...
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There is nothing like the power of a well-set sentence, where every shining word is thoughtfully placed. I offer some of my favorites from...
