Arts

Despite her claim that her fifth time hosting “Saturday Night Live” would not be celebrated with a parade of celebrity guests and other “S.N.L.” alums wishing her well, Kristen Wiig turned her...

From the outside, you wouldn’t know that Rachel McAdams, the thoughtfully charming star of blockbuster rom-coms, rom-drams, a Marvel franchise and the Oscar-winning “Spotlight,” has been wondering about death.Maybe it has to...

Cole Brings Plenty, an actor in the television series “1923,” was found dead on Friday in Kansas after his family reported him missing earlier in the week, officials said.The Johnson County Sheriff’s...

John B. McLemore, a profanely outspoken, brilliant and troubled restorer of antique clocks, emerged a national figure in 2017 with the podcast “S-Town.” As a horologist — a repairer of devices that...

When the musician Laurie Anderson was launching her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work at scale had to go abroad — to one place in particular.“I...

Seinfeld himself has perhaps been the most vocal about the episode in the years since. In a 2014 Q. and A. on Reddit, he said that he was “happy” with it and...

What’s a mistake, and I think unhealthy, is to believe that a series’s worth is retroactively determined by its ending, no matter what came before it. Because that promotes an even sadder...

Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with the popular children’s book “The Indian...

This weekend, 13 movie theaters around the country will be showing “Coup de Chance,” a brisk French-language thriller about a bored wife in Paris who cheats on her wealthy, aloof husband with...

The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones.During sixth grade in Osaka, Japan, Ms. Yamazaki — now a 34-year-old documentary...