Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been toned down. A few over-the-top emotional scenes might have been subdued to ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

When I read it and I compare it to others, it has more migration; it has more about mental health. It has also more climate ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...

Editor’s Note: “The Central Park Five” a new film by Ken Burns, tells the true story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York ...

When I first met Kristoffer Polaha, it was 2003 and he thought he was going to be one of the biggest stars in the world. I know this not because the then 20-something actor wore the guise of a big ...

Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century, it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought of ...

When Kurt Cobain put a bullet to his head – 20 years ago, as of this past April – he scrawled a now-infamous lyric from the Neil Young song “Hey Hey, My My” in the suicide note he left behind: “It’s ...

The first point Elaine Sciolino wants to make in her new book, Adventures in the Louvre, is that the iconic institution isn’t particularly user-friendly: “There is almost no way to avoid getting lost ...

Hollywood is the center of the entertainment universe. The majority of the world’s most popular television, film, and music is created in one city in California, but the content produced is enjoyed ...

The influx of rock music and counterculture in the 1960s signaled a new era for music journalism, and Rolling Stone became the venue for documenting this revolution. As counterculture evolved in San ...

I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to point out Hollywood’s current exhaustive unoriginality. However, the overuse of recognizable brands has taken such a prominent role in entertainment that ...