Arts

Robert Icke’s surgery on a 1912 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?

Who is the worst of the BAD SUMMER PEOPLE (Flatiron, 261 pp., $28.99) in Emma Rosenblum’s addictive thriller of manners set among the rich and socially anxious in Salcombe, a snooty village...

On an idyllic spring day, the choreographer Stephen Petronio was standing in his favorite spot at the Petronio Residency Center, an elevated wooden structure that he calls the perch. With sweeping views...

When she returned to the theater at 80, years after retiring from Parliament, it was — but of course — in the most titanically angry role in the classic canon: King Lear,...

She walked away from a successful acting career to enter the British Parliament, before returning to the stage as the title character in an acclaimed “King Lear.”

Days later, the ice cream king of Waterville arrived in Medford with his wife, Ann, a new trench coat, and a plan. He rubbed the painting’s packaging and crate with Vaseline, for...

The best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert said Monday that she had indefinitely delayed the publication of her upcoming book after she was criticized online for writing a novel set in Russia.The move comes...

The death of the novelist Cormac McCarthy on Tuesday prompted an outpouring from readers, who shared favorite passages, memories of reading his books — and occasionally, encounters with the reclusive writer.Here is...

What books and authors should I take with me?One grand feature of border culture is the lure of a bargain. For decades, the clarion call of cheap muffler (“mofle”) shops drew tourists...

The international art trade, like most global luxury businesses, has its dominant brands. One of the largest is the Swiss-based Art Basel, which organizes fairs for modern and contemporary art from hundreds...