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Books
What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor
Those familiar with her menagerie of grotesques, her views of Southern society, her tortured faith and inner contradictions will get…
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Books
Eurovision Disqualifies Dutch Entrant Hours Before Final
Just hours before this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final was scheduled to begin in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday, the glitzy…
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News
What Donald Trump Would Do for $1 Billion
Not to spend too much time writing about Donald Trump this week, but I was struck by this report in…
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News
Mary Wells Lawrence, High-Profile Advertising Pioneer, Dies at 95
She was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency. Her company, Wells Rich Greene, was…
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News
Rita, Anita, My Mother and Me
Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when…
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Newyork
How a Writer and Biscuit Entrepreneur Spends Her Sundays
Tembe Denton-Hurst delivers fresh-baked biscuits all over New York City, then curls up with a comfort movie when it’s time…
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Business
Ilon Specht, Who Empowered Women With ‘I’m Worth It’ Ad, Dies at 81
She came up with the feminist campaign, for a hair color product, when challenging the notions of men at her…
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News
Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?
Three Black book musicals were Broadway hits in the 1970s: “Purlie” in 1970, “The Wiz” in 1975 and “Raisin” in…
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Books
What’s Your Favorite Soundtrack? We Want to Know.
We’re asking readers to share the movie-related albums that they return to again and again.
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News
David Shapiro, Who Gained Fame in Poetry and Protest, Dies at 77
A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during…