Arts

‘Janet Planet’ Review: A Sticky Summer Full of Small Dramas

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and…

How Cage the Elephant’s Frontman Nearly Lost It All

Matt Shultz is a rock ’n’ roll ringmaster known for pushing himself to the brink. After a period of psychosis…

Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.

The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s…

What Can’t You Say These Days?

THE INDISPENSABLE RIGHT: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, by Jonathan Turley Conservative voices are being silenced. We know…

Writers, the Wretched of the Earth

In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.

How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.

In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Faith, Meet Futility

A new tier of knights, monsters and freaks often exceeds the most demanding late-game adversaries of Elden Ring. Belief in…

Huey Lewis Musical to Close on Broadway as New Shows Struggle

“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony…

How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop

In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”

Review: In ‘Dark Noon,’ American History Is a Shoot-’Em-Up Western

A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of…

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