Books & Culture

In America, Jews pioneered a way of life that didn’t rely on the whims of the powerful. Now it’s under threat.

With their deranged portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln, the actor and writer emerges from the “gay shadows” in a hysterical farce.

The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to listen to. With the latest app updates, I’d had enough.

Our nightmares may be haunted by circling dorsal fins—but there’s something more sinister happening below the surface of the sea.

In “Liars,” Sarah Manguso presents divorce as a way for women to reassert an essential identity that’s been effaced by coercive social scripts.

“Fifteen Cents on the Dollar,” “Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness,” “Swift River,” and “Their Divine Fires.”

Tales of Faust’s bargain teased and consoled an earlier culture with the lure of freedom, the promise of a wider world. But Hell is everywhere now.

You could be involved in other people’s wanting, whether you knew it or not.

On watching—and rewatching—“A Little Romance,” George Roy Hill’s late-seventies classic teen-age love story.

Lurking beneath M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller are the commonplace horrors of family life.

A new documentary based on 1964 interviews lays bare the gap between private self and public image.

This 1990 drama reveals, in documentary-like detail, the power and the politics of an illegal cockfighting ring.

The new seafood restaurant in Fort Greene treats the Crescent City with subtlety and studiousness, without sacrificing any fun.

Hallie Meyer’s gelato project expands from Union Square to Greenpoint, offering bounteous daily flavors topped with luscious imported Italian cream.

What to do with fruit that can’t perform solo.

The town’s restaurants evince a singular mix of gay utopia and New England kitsch.

The HBO show’s latest season finale reaffirms Rhaenyra’s right to rule—but her mode of noble restraint, however admirable in a leader, is lethal in a protagonist.

Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott Turow novel.

In his new video for “Not Like Us,” the hip-hop artist claims victory in his long battle with Drake.

The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race.

A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.

The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.

The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” exorcises the jury-room drama.

Samm-Art Williams’s “Home,” on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi’s “What Became of Us,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.

Carolina Uccelli’s opera “Anna di Resburgo” was remarkably inventive—but it vanished after its première. Teatro Nuovo has brought it back to life.

Damien Geter’s “American Apollo,” at Des Moines Metro Opera, along with revivals of Debussy and Strauss.

How the Tuareg band merges political anguish and musical transcendence.

The artist discusses her new album, moving upstate, and the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.