Arts

Dear readers,When a friend forwarded some fresh ridiculous news about billionaires recently — you might have heard it’s a gangbusters time to be one — I scoffed the scoff of the comfortably...

Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and a longtime...

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube3. Johnny London: “Drivin’ Slow”Two years after the studio opened, Phillips launched his own label, Sun Records, out of the same building. Though Sun would...

In the trilogy’s second book, “Small World” (1984), Morris Zapp, a slick theoretician delivering a lecture at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the all-nude go-go bars of Berkeley,...

About every four years, Steve Kornacki becomes a reluctant internet celebrity.The comedian Leslie Jones has called him “the sexiest nerd on TV.” People magazine agrees. His go-to outfit — glasses, a white...

London theater keeps busy all year round, even during the supposed dog days of January, when other theater capitals are in the doldrums. Try telling that to the creatives who are keeping...

Video game graphics have become hyperrealistic over the past four decades. But in recent years, visual upgrades have had diminishing returns. The industry, which was hit with layoffs and studio closures this...

new video loaded: ‘Nosferatu’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘Nosferatu’ | Anatomy of a SceneRobert Eggers narrates a sequence from his film featuring Nicholas Hoult.“Hi, I’m Robert Eggers, the writer and director of...

new video loaded: ‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a ScenePedro Almodóvar narrates a sequence from his film starring Julianne Moore and Tilda...

Joumana Khatib, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few books to readers looking for gifts for their loved ones.