Books
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A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met
Carlo Rizzi, a Met Opera regular sometimes taken for granted, opened the company’s season this fall and has juggled “Medea,” “Tosca” and “Don Carlo.”
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‘Everything Everywhere’ Takes Top Prize at the Gotham Awards
The film’s Ke Huy Quan also won the supporting-performance trophy at the season’s first big ceremony, where honoree Adam Sandler brought down the house.
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With No Major Releases to Challenge Her, Taylor Swift Sticks at No. 1
“Midnights” logs a fourth week leading the Billboard 200, while Drake and 21 Savage, Bad Bunny and Lil Baby also hold their spots in the Top 5.
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‘The Gett’ Review: Jewish History and a Woman’s Future
The ancient and contemporary swirl together in Liba Vaynberg’s ambitious, off-kilter play about life after a divorce.
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A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.
PARIS — With its monumental Art Deco facade overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the Musée de l’Homme, or Museum of Mankind, is a Paris landmark. Every ...
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Read Your Way Through Tangier
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronFirst, a warning: Tangier is not a place you visit only once. It will charm you, surprise you, make you want to look ...
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Where Words Fail, Humor Glimmers
A HEART THAT WORKS, by Rob Delaney In his new memoir, “A Heart That Works,” the writer, actor and comedian Rob Delaney keeps repeating the basic ...
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From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood
THE EASY LIFE, by Marguerite Duras, translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes Remember boredom? The first English translation of the French ...
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Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner
What books are on your night stand? Two of Cesar Chavez’s favorites: “Loaves and Fishes,” by Dorothy Day, and “Faith and Violence,” by Thomas ...
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Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own
Hannah Bingham understood that the blouse she had bought for her spouse of six years, Adeem Bingham, who was turning 32 in 2020, would be more ...