Arts

SURFACINGWe scoured the New York Times photo archive for the humble yet ubiquitous pay phone. As the effort to remove New York City’s street pay phones were completed this week, a recognizable...

The curator Jonathan Watkins, who commissioned “Cold Dark Matter” when he was the director of the Chisenhale Gallery in London, said Parker’s work was attuned to accidents, violence, and absurdity, and tried...

Still, many readers — riding readers, perhaps — will find the most meaning in Rosen’s carefully curbed but unmistakable personal passion for the bike. “Bike riding is the best way I know...

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Two new books grapple with such questions by examining the rich subject of American funerals in the 19th century. In LOVE AND DUTY: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (University...

When the fourth season of “Stranger Things” kicks off on Netflix on Friday, nearly three years will have passed since the previous season was released, but only six months will have passed...

“What Can I Say?” and “You Know, Sex” help adolescents navigate the awkward age.

Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming-video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop-culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series “Stranger Things” was an...

Of the three dysfunctional-family animated sitcoms on the Fox Network, “Bob’s Burgers” is arguably the gentlest and the sunniest. Created by Loren Bouchard, who was also behind Adult Swim’s late 1990s cult...