4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (163+ words) Being trapped is a reliable premise in horror films and psychological thrillers, with good reason. It’s a primal fear, the type of situation that strikes right into our animal brain. And it has become an apt metaphor, representing the fears…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1145+ words) Dave Marsh, an influential and idiosyncratic rock critic who championed passion over polish, helped catapult Bruce Springsteen to fame and damned the Grateful Dead as “the worst band in creation,” died Aug. 14 at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (920+ words) With much of the world’s ire currently focused on social media influencers at the U.S. Open, Naomi Osaka, the Japanese tennis star, took aim with the measured power of an easy overhead slam and told them to get a clue....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (341+ words) By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR Rob Reiner, who with his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, was killed at his home in Los Angeles in December, won the Emmy Award for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his work on the…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (284+ words) There is a quality of almost holy slowness in Cassandra Wilson’s music that belies the speed and force with which it changed jazz history. Street, speaking on the day of Wilson’s death, invoked Dolly Parton. “When you think about somebody…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (788+ words) John Boorman, the celebrated director of “Deliverance” and “Hope and Glory,” is one of David Kittredge’s favorite filmmakers. But when Kittredge, a Los Angeles director and writer, got the idea for a documentary about his hero, he didn’t want to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (228+ words) In principle, and as often as possible in practice, it’s best to separate judgments about an artist from judgments about the art. Roald Dahl was an unabashed Jew hater. But my childhood (and millions of others) would have been poorer…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1046+ words) By JULIA JACOBS and ANUSHA BAYYA A jury in Las Vegas on Monday found a man guilty of orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, delivering a conviction nearly 30 years after one of hip-hop’s most notorious killings. Duane Keith Davis, 63, was…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1094+ words) The open road has a grand tradition in American movies. You hit the highway, meet people along the way, see some sights and get where you’re going with a fresh perspective. The future is yours. This is not how “It…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1108+ words) Dolly Parton, a rhinestone-studded, rags-to-riches daughter of Appalachia who for six decades ruled country music — and much of pop culture — with an outsize personality and down-home wit that enshrined her as one of America’s most cherished originals, died Tuesday in…...