Books & Culture

Our nightmares may be haunted by circling dorsal fins—but there’s something more sinister happening below the surface of the sea.

The magical in-betweenness—and surprising epidemiological history—of the porch.

A loose federation of hyperlocal Instagram accounts are both satirizing and codifying the habits of a homogenous consumer class.

The Vice​-President, who is set to win the Democratic nomination, has graduated from limbo​.

“Godwin,” “Fire Exit,” “Private Revolutions,” and “Thom Gunn.”

Nearly a century ago, a single trial seemed to shatter the movement’s place in America. It’s returned in a new form—but for old reasons.

His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

This 1990 drama reveals, in documentary-like detail, the power and the politics of an illegal cockfighting ring.

This rom-com about the marketing of the Apollo space program, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, has an inconsistent tone and a vague point of view.

The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.

The director Pascale Bodet works wonders in “Vas-Tu Renoncer?,” based on the relationship of Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire.

The town’s restaurants evince a singular mix of gay utopia and New England kitsch.

Clover Hill offers the kind of technique-oriented cooking that usually emerges from the city’s billionaire canteens—and prices to match.

Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be.

In a dinner series called the Line Up, line cooks, sous-chefs, and chefs de cuisine from buzzy New York restaurants get to be executive chefs for a night.

Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott Turow novel.

In his new video for “Not Like Us,” the hip-hop artist claims victory in his long battle with Drake.

The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race.

The Hulu series about a Chicago sandwich joint once felt like the best kind of prestige TV—but the new season, like its Michelin-hungry protagonist, has lost sight of what made it great.

A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.

The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.

The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” exorcises the jury-room drama.

Samm-Art Williams’s “Home,” on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi’s “What Became of Us,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.

Damien Geter’s “American Apollo,” at Des Moines Metro Opera, along with revivals of Debussy and Strauss.

How the Tuareg band merges political anguish and musical transcendence.

The artist discusses her new album, moving upstate, and the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.

“Regional Mexican” music is booming, but one young singer is in no mood to celebrate.