Kevin Birmingham’s “The Sinner and the Saint” tells the story of an 1835 double killing and the writing of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.”Kevin Birmingham’s “The…
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What to Read: 4 New Poetry Books
A selection of books published this week.A selection of books published this week.Read MorePoetry and Poets, Books and Literature
View More What to Read: 4 New Poetry BooksWhose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours.
Museums striving for diversity and inclusiveness are bringing in outside voices to interpret the art. (They’re not always experts.)Museums striving for diversity and inclusiveness are…
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In the 1940s, he joined with his three brothers and his sister, Rose, to make exuberant music that anticipated rockabilly and rock ’n’ roll.In the…
View More Don Maddox, Last Survivor of a Pioneering Country Band, Dies at 98A Biography of E.O. Wilson, the Scientist Who Foresaw Our Troubles
In Richard Rhodes’s “Scientist,” a portrait emerges of Wilson’s ability to focus on the smallest details in nature and recognize the ways in which they…
View More A Biography of E.O. Wilson, the Scientist Who Foresaw Our TroublesChamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New
Wu Han and David Finckel take a conservative course navigating passionate feelings about the future of classical music.Wu Han and David Finckel take a conservative…
View More Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and NewNew Initiative Aims to Change How Movies Portray Muslims
An advocacy group has created a worker database with help from Disney to bring more Muslims into the filmmaking process.An advocacy group has created a…
View More New Initiative Aims to Change How Movies Portray MuslimsHow Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre
Films like ‘Us’ and the recent sequel to ‘Candyman’ are part of a much longer tradition of storytelling, one that often wrestles with the gruesome…
View More How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre‘Chicago’ Pops the Cork on 25 Years of Razzle Dazzle
Bebe Neuwirth, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, John Kander and others discuss the Broadway revival’s surprising early success and its lasting legacy.Bebe Neuwirth, Joel Grey, Chita…
View More ‘Chicago’ Pops the Cork on 25 Years of Razzle DazzleTaíno People Want to Stop Christie’s Sale of Artifacts
The auction house says none of the objects to be sold in Paris on Wednesday are from illicit sources. But to those with roots in…
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