Books
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Trevor Noah Weighs In on the Killing of Ayman al-Zawahri
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are ...
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At the BlackStar Film Festival, a Revelatory Understanding of Cinema
Don’t call it the Black Sundance. Though it was dubbed that by Ebony magazine, the BlackStar Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is a cultural ...
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The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection
When DaShawn Hickman was 4 years old, living just 32 steps from the tiny granite House of God church in Mount Airy, N.C., he picked up a lap ...
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Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz
I was expecting an energy boost, and then some. But Black Grace, a celebrated company from New Zealand known for dazzling, fast dancing, returned ...
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Theater at Geffen Hall to Be Named for Two Key Donors
In late 2020, as coronavirus infections surged and cultural institutions shuttered, the fate of the long-delayed renovation of David Geffen Hall ...
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Max Hollein Consolidates Roles as Met Museum’s Chief
Max Hollein, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will add the title of chief executive, the museum’s board announced on Wednesday ...
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‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 pages. Soft Skull. $23. Care work — tending to the sick ...
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Read Your Way Through Cairo
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronThis story is part of a new series exploring the world through books. We’ve asked some of our favorite writers to ...
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When White People Become People of Color
THE LAST WHITE MAN, by Mohsin Hamid The opening sentence of “The Last White Man,” the latest novel by the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid, may ...
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Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life
Getting to play Cinderella in a Broadway revival of “Into the Woods” sounds like a young musical theater performer’s dream, until you break your ...