Bookshelf
The experience of grief is a near-universal human experience. But philosophers have held it at arm’s length.5 min read
Arts & Entertainment
A tribute special to the late actress featuring her last on-camera performance—a thank-you message to fans recorded 11 days before her death last month—will be shown in more than 1,500 movie theaters on Jan. 17.3 min read
Music Review
The artist’s latest album has a potent lyricism and a ‘first take’ aesthetic that suits the introspective nature of his rhyming.4 min read
Music Review
The Russian-German artist gave a concert that included the premiere of Fred Hersch’s Variations on a Folksong.4 min read
Bookshelf
Everyday revolutionaries in 1776, the terrible aftermath of the Third Reich, wealth meets witchcraft in an alternate-reality London and much more.2 min read
Icons
A new exhibition shows how the British artist saw humanity’s bestial side.4 min read
Bookshelf
Henry Hobson Richardson’s Trinity Church, in Boston’s Copley Square.
Churches, libraries, railway stations: H.H. Richardson’s buildings are wrongly overlooked.7 min read
Celebrating the role of the obscure and dispossessed in the Revolution. Jefferson and Washington? Not so much.6 min read
Plus ‘Silent Parade’ and ‘Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder.’5 min read
Adolf Hitler’s suicide ended Nazi rule in Germany. But the nightmare was not yet over.9 min read