The importance of going to the movies
Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
Books & Arts
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
Is the New York subway the city’s best gallery?
Beneath the Big Apple’s streets, the MTA has amassed the largest collection of public art in the world
Forbidden love in the Great War
If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Ernest Hilbert weathers the storms of life and fatherhood
Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
Broadway brings back Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
The first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
Madness and cannibalism with David Grann
The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
Curtis Sittenfeld is the great American observer
In Romantic Comedy , we get her insight into a new phenomenon — celebrity of the modern age
What makes a novel funny?
In search of the great American comic novel
Who was the real Martin Luther King, Jr.?
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years