Books
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Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs
The guitarist, who died on Tuesday, could make his instrument slash, burn and sigh. Listen to tracks released from 1966…
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The Kafka You Never Knew
An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions.
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Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’
At once emotional and embittered, the royal memoir is mired in a paradox: drawing endless attention in an effort to…
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Is That All There Is? A Secular Seeker Visits Holy Sites.
In “The Half Known Life,” Pico Iyer journeys around the globe to study conceptions of the world beyond.
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A Festival Is ‘Uncensored’ No More After Pulling a Work About Gender
The Frigid Fringe Festival in New York said it would no longer bill itself as “uncensored” after deciding not to…
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Alex Brightman Lays ‘Beetlejuice’ to Rest
A concussion nearly derailed the actor’s fan-favorite turn as the madcap, black-and-white striped ghoul. But he recovered in time for…
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Longtime Film Forum Director to Step Down After 50 Years
Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step…
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BAM Artistic Director David Binder to Step Down in July
Binder, who was a Broadway producer before joining the nonprofit in 2019, plans to return to theater’s commercial sector.
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How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe
This weekend the narrative around the Buffalo Bills player flipped, from soul-searching about the violence of America’s most popular sport…
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As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars
At the annual meeting of the American Historian Association, the raging battle over how to write about the past —…