Arts

Scott Johnson, a composer and guitarist who forged an original style involving the rhythmic cadences of speech and the gestures and timbres of popular music, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was...

Martin’s parents divorced when he was 5. His father was a one-time professional boxer: violent, then violently inappropriate, New Agey, possibly a lover of Shirley MacLaine’s, likely schizophrenic, a self-identified alcoholic till...

The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on Saturday in Manhattan and charged with strangulation, assault and harassment after what the police in New York described as a “domestic dispute.”Mr. Majors, 33, was...

Molly Young is on leave for the next several months. In her absence, colleagues from the Book Review will pick up the recommendation torch and appear in your inbox every two Saturdays.Dear...

But as is often the case with both Dickens and Knight, it’s more complicated than that. “I think Jaggers represents big-city life, and the ambition and greed that comes with it,” Thomas...

Spotted any faraway balloons or U.F.O.s lately? For this visual series, we asked four photographers to do what some of us have been doing more frequently: looking up.March 25, 2023Balarama HellerWhen Balarama...

Howard Brandston, a prominent lighting designer who illuminated landmarks in New York and around the world, and who used light to inspirit people depressed by waning winter daylight, to prevent infections, and...

John E. Woods, an award-winning translator of the works of Thomas Mann, one of Germany’s greatest novelists, and of the lesser-known Arno Schmidt, whose complex fiction has been compared to James Joyce’s,...

The Spanish star Sara Baras has appeared many times before an adoring public in the annual Flamenco Festival New York. Over the years, I’ve been impressed by her undeniably high technical abilities,...

From the start, the HBO series “Succession,” returning Sunday for its fourth and final season, has kept us dangling. The first ever episode teased a retirement announcement that never came, and ever...