The Village Voice reviews the "The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media," a fascinating exhibition at the Grolier Club.

In a historic, long-overdue move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has added a new competitive category for Best Casting to this year’s 98th Academy Awards, honor ...

The flayed, bloody flesh, screeching soundtrack, Gothic sets, and elegantly flapping costumes are all on brand for the visionary director. In the 200 years since Mary Shelley first realized her ...

Plaster casts of Leonard Nimoy’s head crowded one display table. Life-sized posters of William Shatner striking various heroic poses covered the walls. The air was filled with a cacophony of ...

Who defeated Charles Van Doren? / Which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1955, and why did Herbert Stempel have to pretend that he didn’t know? / What did President Eisenhower call “a terrible ...

Clockwise from upper left: George Gershwin dazzled, Gil Scott-Heron presaged rap, Jennifer Lopez brought a Latin sound to poppy r&b, and Sonny Rollins found bliss beneath the Williamsburg Bridge.

Hookup apps are specifically designed to facilitate casual dating, offering opportunities for one-night stands, open relationships, and fun-based connections rather than serious commitments. If you ...

Gateway drug? Copy of “Junkwaffel” #1, purchased under false pretenses half a century ago. R: Paperback remnant of a stage career cut short. It was sometime in 1974, and I was extremely nervous ...

∼ ∼ ∼ This article is part of a series — At 250, Who Will America Be? — reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation’s Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026. ∼ ∼ ∼ Of all the ...

Dianna Settles’s “What’s left? This season of heat and wind, this dinner tonight, and those large bands of trembling waves of various shades of green that split my heart with their incredible beauty.

Landslide behind bars: In 2024, Donald Trump was favored by white male prisoners 60% to 21%. Photo illustration by RCB | Prison photo by Tim Photoguy; Trump Flag by Dalton Caraway; MAGA hat by Natilyn ...

A radiant symbol of political reality: Narsiso Martinez’s “Then and Now, Hope and Dignity” (2024). Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery / Photo ...