When a mysterious outsider joins a small-town Louisiana classroom, in Erin Entrada Kelly’s “Those Kids From Fawn Creek,” everything changes.When a mysterious outsider joins a…
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Seth Meyers Roasts Ron DeSantis for Berating Teens
Meyers said Florida’s governor was like “an old man who sees a bunch of innocent teens walking by and screams, ‘Hey, you kids get on…
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Inspired by Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Aleshea Harris uses poetic language, songs and symbolism to explore the trauma of being alive, especially for Black people.Inspired by Sophocles’…
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When other studios didn’t want it, he took on the project that became “Star Wars.” He later guided “Chariots of Fire,” “Young Frankenstein” and numerous…
View More Alan Ladd Jr., Hitmaking Film Executive, Dies at 84Farrah Forke, Who Played a Helicopter Pilot on ‘Wings,’ Dies at 54
Forke, the namesake of a not-yet-famous family friend named Farrah Fawcett, played Alex Lambert on three seasons of the popular sitcom, a fixture of the…
View More Farrah Forke, Who Played a Helicopter Pilot on ‘Wings,’ Dies at 54What’s in Our Queue? ‘The House of Mirth’ and More
I’m The Times’s assistant TV editor. Here are five things I’ve been watching, reading and listening to.I’m The Times’s assistant TV editor. Here are five…
View More What’s in Our Queue? ‘The House of Mirth’ and More‘Lupin,’ Netflix’s French Heist Drama, Is the Victim of a Theft
Equipment valued at more than $300,000 was stolen from the set of the hit series during filming in a Paris suburb last week.Equipment valued at…
View More ‘Lupin,’ Netflix’s French Heist Drama, Is the Victim of a TheftThe Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form
On the fair’s 30th anniversary, a question hangs in the air: Has this genre been absorbed by the mainstream? What is ‘outsider’ when its greatest…
View More The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top FormCécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own
The vocalist who dares to take on older music with unsavory history turns inward on “Ghost Song,” her most revealing and rewarding album yet.The vocalist…
View More Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken
In this moving period drama, a German gay man repeatedly declares his independence in a country that criminalizes his desire and his identity.In this moving…
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