Beginning with his first full-length collection, “Looking for Holes in the Ceiling,” in 1974, Mr. Dunn specialized in poems about surviving, coping with and looking for meaning in the ordinary passages of life, or at least of the middle-class life he was familiar with. More often, though, his subject matter was of a sort that […]
“These are entirely her words,” said Samuel D. At the time, Ms. Spears had been hospitalized for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation amid concerns about her mental health and substance abuse, and her father, James P. Mr. Ingham did not respond to requests to comment Thursday on how his client’s portrayal of him in court corresponded […]
In a TikTok video from June 18, Erick Louis, a 21-year-old content creator and dancer in Orlando, Fla., nods and bounces along to Megan Thee Stallion’s latest single. Seconds later, with his lips pursed, Mr. Louis flips two middle fingers at the camera and walks away. By Thursday, the video had racked up 127,700 likes […]
“There’s not a lot from the pregnant person’s point of view,” Glazer said. The subject of childbirth is also of particular interest to Glazer because she is the star and co-writer of a new film, “False Positive,” that casts her as a woman whose efforts to have a child draw her into a nightmarish spiral […]
I think when smart and stupid come together, it’s very difficult, but if you can make it happen, I think it’s the most beautiful thing in the world,” O’Brien said. It’s not easy to do, but try — try and do what you love with people you love. “This is a dramatic fall from grace. […]
They have plenty of opportunity in a setup that sends three eighteen-wheelers charging across a thawing Lake Winnipeg, bound for a diamond mine in Northern Manitoba. Despite the valorous efforts of all involved — the movie was filmed without the use of a green screen — the action is at times incomprehensible. …Read the full […]
There’s no shortage of system shocks in “Summer of Soul.” This is a concert movie that basically opens with a 19-year-old, pre-imperial-era Stevie Wonder getting behind a drum kit and whomping away — sitting, standing, kicking, possessed. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing, which is simply — though […]
Onstage, there will be some familiar faces: Norm Lewis and Michael Urie, both well-known and well-liked by theater audiences. Three of the show’s lead producers, Pamela Ross, E. Lyons founded the Next Wave Initiative, a scholarship program for Black theater artists; Lewis is a founding member of Black Theater United; and Levingston is the director […]
“If we dare to wager that Oumuamua was a piece of advanced extraterrestrial technology, we stand only to gain,” he writes in this book arguing his case, which doubles as a poignant memoir of his childhood on an Israeli farm and his passion for space science. Kerschenbaum comes to some surprising conclusions: Some version of […]
In his travels in East Africa and Bangladesh, he had watched traditional sails and masts replaced by outboard motors. To him, it was a dramatic display of technology going wrong, further proof that the world we built is unsustainable. In the vast but liminal space of the ocean, cargo vessels — some of the largest […]
The post-pop artist Kenny Scharf, who came out of the same downtown art and music scene as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Klaus Nomi, is someone whose critical and material stock has risen, fallen and risen again over decades. The movie’s canny assemblage of archival footage from Scharf’s early New York ascendancy in the late […]
Horror villains have always shouldered a lot of cultural baggage, but there have been attempts to reclaim monstrosity on film, particularly in the last few decades of low-budget cinema. The film, written by Mishna Wolff and based very loosely on the video game of the same name, unfolds in the northeastern hamlet of Beaverfield, home […]
In recent years, mainstream horror movies like “Hereditary” and “It Follows” have embraced a seemingly more sophisticated form that unites social and psychological drama with a sleek visual sensibility. After two years of attempting to conceive, Lucy , a debonair fertility doctor with a menacing glint in his eyes. To prevent future complications, however, she […]
The best thing in “Lansky” is Harvey Keitel’s turn as the gangster Meyer Lansky. In a delicatessen on his home turf in Miami, Lansky orders tongue sandwiches and quickly lays out the rules for the writer, a fictional character called David Stone : He can’t use a recorder. The heart of this movie, directed by […]
2, Dustin Johnson of the United States, who confirmed his decision in March, were the 11th-ranked Tyrrell Hatton of Britain and the 12th-ranked Louis Oosthuizen, the South African who finished second in the past two major tournaments. For Sophia Popov, family considerations explain an enthusiastic embrace of the chance to pursue a pandemic-delayed Olympic gold […]
Since the 19th century, the trimmed painting has been housed in the Rijksmuseum, where it is displayed as the museum’s centerpiece, at the focal point of its Gallery of Honor. About two feet from the left of the canvas was shaved off, and another nine inches from the top. Temporarily restoring these parts will give […]
She said she didn’t know she could petition to end the conservatorship. Last year, Mr. Ingham began requesting substantial changes to the conservatorship on behalf of Ms. Spears, including stripping power from her father, James P. “She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote […]
I am traumatized,” Ms. Spears, 39, said in an emotional 23-minute address by phone that was broadcast in the courtroom and, as she insisted, to the public. It was the first time that the world had heard Ms. Spears address in detail her struggles with the conservatorship granted to her father, James P. “It’s embarrassing […]
With a couple of minutes to play in Budapest, the French midfielder Adrien Rabiot looked squarely at Sergio Oliveira, his Portuguese opponent, and advised him to back away. The game had oscillated — Portugal led, then France, then Portugal struck back — and so had their fates, dependent to some extent on the outcome of […]
The games, if not always artistic, were ridiculously compelling. It was night after night of tight scores, unforeseen comebacks and individual brilliance from too many stars to list them all, most notably Durant, Atlanta’s Trae Young, the Clippers’ Paul George, Phoenix’s Devin Booker and an unheralded find from the N.B.A. Yet chaos was a constant […]