Kamala Harris’s Laugh Is a Campaign Issue. Our Comedy Critic Weighs in.
The Trump campaign sees Harris’s laugh as a vulnerability to exploit. But far from a liability, it is one of her most effective weapons.
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The Trump campaign sees Harris’s laugh as a vulnerability to exploit. But far from a liability, it is one of her most effective weapons.
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The actor announced his return to Marvel’s superhero movie franchise five years after ending his long run as Iron Man.
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An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”
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Reality TV staples like “Love Island” and “Bachelor in Paradise” often take place in luxury resorts to set the mood. But not all resorts love the attention.
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Soothing the Savage Beasts
Not everyone gets to have a dragon. But maybe more people get to have dragons than everyone thought?
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How ‘House of the Dragon’ Turns Fiery Fantasy Into TV Reality
For the “Game of Thrones” prequel series, the producers had to figure out how to make the title beasts believably bigger, badder and more prominent.
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104 Shows. $260 Million. After 10 Years, Billy Joel Closes a Chapter.
The singer and songwriter, 75, wrapped his decade-long residency at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. Up next? A new era in his live career.
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A New Batman Is Less a Dark Knight Than a ‘Weird and Creepy’ One
“Batman: Caped Crusader,” a new animated series, is not concerned with making its hero likable — either to the citizens of Gotham or to its audience.
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A conversation about the Detroit rapper’s long and unlikely career as his 12th studio album reaches No. 1.
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The prestigious downtown nonprofit Soho Rep will share space with Playwrights Horizons in Midtown Manhattan while figuring out a longer-term plan.
By Michael Paulson
Try this short quiz about the vibrant cultural movement that came together a century ago — and continues to be influential.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.
By Elizabeth A. Harris
The Sentiero dell’Arte e dell’Anima, or Path of Art and Soul, in Pienza, is lined with 28 benches created by well-known artists where visitors can take in the countryside of the Val d’Orcia.
By Ondine Cohane
In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.
By Trip Gabriel
A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.
By Penelope Green
At 77, the famous performance artist is determined to endure past 100. She recently introduced some products she hopes will help.
By Jessica Testa
HBO airs a new documentary. The “Game of Thrones” spinoff wraps up its second season.
By Shivani Gonzalez
A conversation about the Detroit rapper’s long and unlikely career as his 12th studio album reaches No. 1.
The band members were traveling on Friday to a performance when their plane crashed in Wyoming. Four others on board were killed.
By Emmett Lindner
A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
By Richard Sandomir
The head-spinning pace of U.S. political news continues to give the hosts plenty to talk about.
By Trish Bendix
Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.
By Annie Aguiar
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He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
By Alex Williams
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.
By Zachary Small
This month’s picks include a ’90s coming-of-age tale from India, a Turkish noir set in a zoo, a Romanian drama about provincial politics and more.
By Devika Girish
An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”
By Tom Mashberg
A diverse cast of characters and a murder to solve each school year have helped make this teen drama one of Netflix’s longest-running original shows.
By Precious Adesina
“Batman: Caped Crusader,” a new animated series, is not concerned with making its hero likable — either to the citizens of Gotham or to its audience.
By Dave Itzkoff
Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and toothpicks.
By Elisabeth Egan
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
By Danielle Dowling
The new installment draws on decades of Marvel and X-Men history. It helps to know the back stories ahead of time.
By Christopher Kuo
A Lincoln Center retrospective puts the spotlight on midcentury movies aimed at the masses that continue to influence filmmakers.
By Carlos Aguilar
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The director Shawn Levy narrates a scene from the latest sequel in the franchise.
By Mekado Murphy
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
By The New York Times
The film follows a National Ballet of Canada production of “Swan Lake” as dancers and others deal with long-simmering issues of racism and sexism.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Reality TV staples like “Love Island” and “Bachelor in Paradise” often take place in luxury resorts to set the mood. But not all resorts love the attention.
By Calum Marsh
The director Shawn Levy narrates a sequence from his film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
By Mekado Murphy
Colbert said the ex-president was “focused on the real issue gripping the country: desperately workshopping a new nickname for Kamala Harris.”
By Trish Bendix
Thousands of people piled into Madison Square Garden on Thursday to hear Billy Joel’s catalog of hits in the final show of his long residency at the arena.
By Alexandra E. Petri
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.
By Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning
The new Hulu series, set at a prestigious Los Angeles dance studio, harks back to the vibes of an earlier age.
By Margaret Lyons
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The 1993 album “Doggystyle” went on to sell millions of copies around the world and solidified the career of Mr. Daniel, known as Joe Cool, as a hip-hop illustrator.
By Emmett Lindner
Most record companies didn’t think “The First Family,” which he and his writing partner created, was a good idea. It became the fastest-selling album of the pre-Beatles era.
By Trip Gabriel
Few critics could deny that the highly anticipated super spectacle, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, has its charms — but most left wanting more.
By Reggie Ugwu
When the athletes march in — or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday — you can enjoy the illusion that it’s a small world after all.
By Jason Farago
In this Chinese police procedural, directed by Wei Shujun, solutions are murkier than they first appear.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Based on the life of an Iranian German drug dealer and rapper, Fatih Akin’s interminable drama feels uncomfortably partial to its violent subject.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
This raunchy comedy features Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally on a bachelorette weekend.
By Amy Nicholson
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
By Glenn Kenny
A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times.
By James Poniewozik
Klaus Florian Vogt, a Wagner specialist with an ethereal yet mighty sound, is returning to the Bayreuth Festival to sing in the “Ring.”
By Jeffrey Arlo Brown
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Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
By Holland Cotter
The artist’s new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells.
By Ted Loos
A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother.
By Alissa Wilkinson
The rap duo’s raw songs and festival-like touring strategy has paid off: Its latest album opened at No. 5 without traditional industry strategies or support.
By Larry Fitzmaurice
The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.
By Chloé Braithwaite
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is full of solutions that slide and stump. Play follow the leader in Flock, and take on bulbous hordes in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.
By Harold Goldberg
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