Arts

BROOKLYN CRIME NOVEL, by Jonathan LethemBefore “a writer living in Brooklyn” became a tiresome stereotype, there was Jonathan Lethem, who — like Bernard Malamud and Betty Smith before him — was actually...

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the executive director and chief negotiator for the actors’ union, has spent the past two decades toiling behind the scenes during contract talks. The spotlight, he knows, is for the...

Part of the promise of New York City Center’s Fall for Dance festival, now in its 20th season, has been to lure new audiences to dance. In that spirit, Michael Rosenberg, the...

From a football perspective, the game on Sunday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets is not must-see TV.The Chiefs, favored by 8.5 points, are the reigning Super...

A fire in a Maine village on Wednesday destroyed multiple original paintings by the renowned painter Jamie Wyeth of the Wyeth family of artists, along with several waterfront buildings.The fire broke out...

Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, a celebrated modernist composer, would tell people about her work and sometimes be met with dismissive questions like “Do you write songs for children?”...

When the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener was a child, she dreaded school trips to museums in Lima, the capital.As her class approached the display cases containing the pre-Columbian ceramic statues known as...

Recently, a guy in front of me at the checkout had just two things in his shopping basket: giant bags of Twizzlers and a naughty nurse costume. My first thought was: I...

‘Coming to America’ (Oct. 31)Stream it here.Eddie Murphy was the biggest movie star on the planet in 1988, and he could’ve easily continued to crank out fast-talking turns in “Beverly Hills Cop”...

Unfortunately for Chuck, Fourth doesn’t see things his way. In Prince’s tough talk about the bomb, Fourth hears a man willing to thumb his nose at the “nanny state” — a man...