Arts

“Congratulations, Kansas. It’s moments like these I wish I knew which one of these states you were,” Trevor Noah joked on Wednesday.“Most alarming about the elections is that many of the big...

When did the horror of a double-booked vacation rental become a thing? It is the hook for two new releases, “Barbarian,” premiering later this month, and “Gone in the Night,” directed by...

The renowned composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski, who died last year, was celebrated for the committed nature of his leftist politics as well as his music.On the political front, he tended to...

When Jennette McCurdy was 16, she was in her third year on “iCarly,” the hit teen sitcom on Nickelodeon. Millions of young viewers admired her for her comic portrayal of Sam Puckett,...

Noah argued that safe houses should be called something different because “every terrorist gets killed in a safe house.”

Burt Metcalfe, who as the showrunner of “M*A*S*H” for the last six of its 11 seasons made a critical casting decision as he began his tenure and helped write the two-and-a-half-hour final...

It had to be around here someplace, but Michael R. Jackson could not readily locate his Pulitzer Prize certificate when an importuning visitor asked for a look. He rummaged through piles of...

THE LOST KINGS, by Tyrell JohnsonThe trauma plot has become nearly inescapable, according to the critic Parul Sehgal. Writing in The New Yorker, Sehgal rightly rues the tyranny of a story line,...

Whatever she said during that call, it inspires Jimmy to start earning money, pronto. He makes amends, in his own blunt way, with Jeff and his buddy Buddy (Max Bickelhaup) and the...

Bill Cosby’s lawyers have announced they are seeking a new trial in a civil case in California where a jury in June found he sexually assaulted Judy Huth when she was 16.In...