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TOKYO — Perhaps it was the fact that my daughter was in her final year of high school while I was reading “The Tale of Genji,” a 1,300-page tome written more than...

For readers in English, there are four principal translations of “The Tale of Genji,” Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century classic.Arthur Waley’s version first introduced the work in its (near) entirety to the West in...

People weren’t quite sure what to make of Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. when, like some kind of prodigal son, he came back to New York in 2016, after making a life in...

The singer-songwriter with Springsteen aspirations wants to make music for everyone. Her new album, “Proof of Life,” pushes her one step closer.

The singer and his songs were highly religious. His concert venue, on a kibbutz developed by secular leftists, was definitely not. His audience of many hundreds? It was somewhere in between: some...

The chatting app Discord, which is one of the most popular ways gamers communicate online, finds itself at the center of an investigation into the leak of classified documents about the war...

“Tiny Beautiful Things” is one of those shows whose appeal lies in reflecting back to viewers their own problems and attitudes (or the ones they imagine they have); it describes emotions rather...

“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in Broadway history, will give its final performance on Sunday, bringing its glittering chandelier crashing down on the stage of the Majestic Theater...

Since the 2016 release of the global megahit “Your Name,” the stirring music in the animated epics of the Japanese director Makoto Shinkai has become inextricable from their transporting images.Shinkai’s recent high-stakes...

The tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel often tells the story of learning, for the first time, about the African American roots of tap. She grew up loving Ginger Rogers, but it...