Arts

Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields behind Belgian draft horses and wrote lyrical poems, novels and essays — mostly in pencil and without electric light — that explored his...

In a postapocalyptic future where citizens sync their minds with an authoritarian artificial intelligence system in order to survive, a detective investigates a murder at a refugee camp. That’s about all I...

Richard Lingeman, a magazine editor who wrote an acclaimed study of small-town America and biographies of Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis that helped revive interest in those once-towering American novelists, died on...

Dear listeners,Here we are again. About this time last year, with the sun loitering lazily above us, I wrote to you about embracing the sublime intensity of Peak Summer. We declared it...

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” assembled Avengers-style to power the biggest movie weekend ever for the domestic box office. But beyond the dollar signs, do these films about an angsty...

Revelatory details about the relationship between the singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whom he is accused of killing when she was 14, were presented in excruciating testimony on Friday during a...

Jimothy, an adorable raccoon with a distinctly rounded back and spindly legs, rocketed to national celebrity this week when video of him scampering around Seattle spread on social media. I cannot resist...

For anyone hoping that Britain will one day return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, Andy Burnham’s appointment offers hope.Mr. Burnham has been a long-term supporter of returning the sculptures, also known as...

Dave Kendall, who as the taste-making creator and former host of the long-running MTV music video show “120 Minutes” introduced alternative rock and underground music to a generation of fans in the...

Alex Faltas, a 6-year-old art lover, prefers to sit on the ground. “As long as I’m sitting against something,” he said.The something in this case was his mother, Danielle Huthart, who had...