Books
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A Who’s Who of L.A.’s Art World Bids Farewell to a Champion
Artists, collectors and Hollywood stars toasted the Hammer Museum’s outgoing director, Ann Philbin, who remade the institution during 25 years at the helm.
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Pulitzer Prizes 2024: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.
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Brittney Griner, in Her Own Words
COMING HOME, by Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford If you weren’t following women’s basketball, you probably hadn’t heard of Brittney Griner when she was arrested at a Moscow-area airport in February 2022. But she was a bona fide superstar — an ...
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The Plucky Irish Heroine of ‘Brooklyn’ Is Back — and in Crisis
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
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Netflix Gives Comedy the Live Treatment. The Results Are Chaotic.
Sometimes that’s a good thing, as with John Mulaney’s variety show “Everybody’s in L.A.” But the Katt Williams special and Tom Brady roast were more uneven.
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Tyshawn Sorey Wins Pulitzer for Composing an ‘Anti-Concerto’
The composer and instrumentalist was honored for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” an unconventional concerto written for saxophone and orchestra.
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Why Kristi Noem Is in the Doghouse
In April 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson was photographed lifting one of his beagles (he had two, named Him and Her) by the ears. The picture, published in Life magazine, caused widespread public outcry. Johnson apologized — and after leaving the ...
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Coming Soon to Little Island: An Arts Festival With Powerful Backers
The mogul Barry Diller, who paid for the park, will finance a summer season of music, dance, theater and more, shaped in part by the Broadway producer Scott Rudin.
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‘The Sympathizer’ Opens a Counteroffensive on Vietnam War Movies
HBO’s series is not just a good story. It’s a sharp piece of film criticism.
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‘They Are So Triggered by Me’: Conchita Wurst’s 10-Year Roller-Coaster Ride
Since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014, the bearded drag queen has been celebrated and condemned. For her creator, Tom Neuwirth, it has been a journey.