[ad_1] Peter Schjeldahl, a college dropout from Minnesota who became one of New York’s most durable and revered art critics, writing with wit, humanity and lyrical precision about old masters like Velázquez (“If he were a rock singer, he would be Roy Orbison”) and 20th century giants like Lucian Freud (“hard to like and almost … Read more
[ad_1] John Jay Osborn Jr., author of the best-selling 1971 novel “The Paper Chase,” a coming-of-age story about an idealistic Harvard Law School student who becomes obsessed with both contracts law and his imperious professor, died Oct. 19 at his home in San Francisco. He was 77. The cause was squamous cell cancer, said his … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment “The Black Queen,” Sunday’s Season 1 finale of HBO’s massive hit “House of the Dragon,” didn’t lack for ambition. The episode had an extended, midair dragon-on-dragon chase scene, the third(!) harrowing birth/death scene in only 10 episodes, the untimely death of a young character, and Seven Kingdoms on the … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Actor Leslie Jordan died Monday in Los Angeles, according to his agent. Jordan was reportedly in a car accident, though his cause of death was not confirmed. He was 67 years old. While known in recent years for appearing in the television series “American Horror Story,” “Will & Grace” … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The dance is ebullient, but we know it augurs heartbreak. In Constellation Theatre Company’s winning staging of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 1990 musical “Once on This Island,” a key moment sees Ti Moune, a young woman from a peasant background, performing at a soiree for wealthy snobs, including … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps it is altogether fitting and proper that our generation should have so many. The latest — Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham’s “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment I began reading “Inciting Joy” in a profound state of doubt. Yes, I respected its author, Ross Gay, for the whimsy, discipline and defiance that produced his prior essay and poetry collections, “The Book of Delights” and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” which won a 2015 National Book Critics Circle … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist and professor of medicine at Columbia University, won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” (2010), and has had a large popular following ever since. In “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment TTwenty years ago, filmmaker Nina Menkes began to deliver a lecture as a member of the film faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, exploring a hypothesis she had long held instinctively but had only recently begun to flesh out in earnest. Her talk posited that the way … Read more
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Our side has a cool table going for it We open on a pensive Luke standing beside a giant war table inside the Dragonstone strategy room. The boy runs his hand over the engraved area representing Driftmark. Rhaenyra, still very pregnant, finds her son, who worries that Corlys the … Read more