Arts
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Hidden Art: A Rhapsody for the Soul, in 10 City Corners
When I emerge from an art gallery or a museum, the world around me looks different. Leaving the Metropolitan Museum…
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How Light Creates Suspense in ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
The film’s director and co-writer, David Gordon Green, narrates a sequence featuring Leslie Odom Jr. and Lidya Jewett.
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Dancers and Video Game Characters Merge in the Uncanny Valley
Some dancers have found a niche on TikTok and other platforms imitating video game characters — moving like a machine’s…
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Review: Scream Along With Pussy Riot
In the first major museum retrospective devoted to the Russian art provocateurs, they pump their fists and cause a fuss.…
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Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a splashy Pixar creation, an Adam Sandler comedy and the newest installment in the “Spy Kids”…
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Music Too Fast for Feet
Since the continent’s clubs reopened after pandemic lockdowns, young partygoers have been drawn to a hard, driving style of techno.…
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Jhumpa Lahiri Translates the Varieties of Strangeness
In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.
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Ghosts Come in Many Forms in Bryan Washington’s New Novel
In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated…
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Audiobook of the Week: What’s Really in a Hot Dog?
“Raw Dog,” by the comedian Jamie Loftus, is an investigative memoir that’s part gonzo travelogue and part takedown of the…
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Kate DiCamillo Is Not Afraid of the Dark
Kate DiCamillo learned the craft of storytelling by sitting on old ladies’ porches on her dead-end street in Central Florida.…