Arts

PEOPLE COLLIDE, by Isle McElroyAsked to choose flight or invisibility as a superpower — that old party game — how many novelists would choose flight, like captains of industry tend to do?...

Kerry Washington’s true colors came out over a pink cardboard box of croissants.“You have to take them back to your office,” said Washington, 46, as she sat, cross-legged, on a wingback chair...

Marvin Newman, a renowned photographer who brought a quirky, artistic eye to capturing shadows on a Chicago main street; people in front of shuttered storefronts on Coney Island; and athletes in competition,...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino, slated to rise on the National Mall in Washington, is meant to give a prominent presence to the story of America’s largest minority group....

Drivers in Los Angeles heading north on La Cienega Boulevard these days might notice a bronzed gentleman smiling down at them from billboards poised on either side of the street.He is Gerry...

PENANCE, by Eliza Clark“Penance,” Eliza Clark’s sophomore novel, begins with a fictional but realistic disclaimer: The following book is a work of nonfiction written by the English journalist Alec Z. Carelli and...

Moving to New York is almost always a decision informed partly by fantasy. It’s impossible to escape the fictional versions of the city that proliferate in books, art, music — and, perhaps...

Season 7, Episode 7: ‘DMV’Well, that was a nasty bit of business.One of the best episodes of “Billions” in recent memory, “DMV” — named after the government agency turned into an unlikely...

‘Vicenta’Stream it on Ovid.In 2006, Vicenta, a poor and illiterate domestic worker in Buenos Aires, discovered that her 19-year-old daughter, Laura, who had a developmental disability, was pregnant; she had been raped...

Laurence des Cars was a young curatorial recruit at the Musée d’Orsay in 1994 when she had a dream: pairing two great French painters, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, in a single...