Books & Culture

Yes, there are Botox parties and rollerblading dates, but the women in the family’s latest spinoff give the sense that they are just clocking in at the reality-show office.

Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.

She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.

Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it.

“The Black Shield,” “Endless Endings,” “Solstice,” and “I Was Bonnie & Clyde.”

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

The best-selling novel by the French author and podcaster Philippe Collin, which is set during the German Occupation of Paris, has a great premise but suffers in the execution.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.

In films like “One Night Only” and “I Want Your Sex,” our prudish age becomes the scene of a crime.

Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing.

In David Robert Mitchell’s film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, a family is endangered not only by dinosaurs but also by the director’s penchant for Spielbergian nostalgia.

Contemplating life’s mysteries over a seafood tower at Zig Zag Oyster Bar.

The chain is attempting a wholesome revival. Will it work?

Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard.

The FX series, which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so.

The irreverent comedy is the longest-running sitcom in history, yet has won no major awards. What gives?

Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting.

The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time.

The actor on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.”

Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses.

The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends.

When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single “Rubberz,” he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence.

With his new album, “Iceman,” the master of the summer banger is not done airing his grievances.

The Grammy-winning artist on coming out as nonbinary, writing requited love songs for the first time, and why their new album, “Hazel Eyes,” is their most personal yet.

The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime.