By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It’s been years since Adichie, the author of “Americanah,” released a work of fiction; now she returns with the stories of
Ninety pounds, the approximate weight of a Farfisa organ, nearly kept Benmont Tench from his destiny. It was late 1971, and Tench, a native of
Joseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and
When the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff returned home to Berlin after a recent performance in Chicago, he was distraught. The concert had gone well, but
Antonine Maillet, a Canadian writer who shaped a new literary language for an isolated French-speaking minority, becoming the first non-European to win France’s most prestigious
Maria Luisa Tipo was born in Naples on Dec. 23, 1931. Her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, was a concert pianist; her father, she told The Baltimore
Senior leadership at the Guggenheim will not be taking pay cuts, according to a museum spokeswoman, Tina Vaz. The cuts are spread over six departments,
In her suit, she alleges that she was handed a spiked drink at an after-party in the SoHo area of Manhattan, where Mr. Combs and
2. La Bionda: “I Wanna Be Your Lover” Trust me when I say you need to watch this music video. This playful, deliriously catchy, proto-Daft
Model/Actriz, ‘Cinderella’ Agitation is built in to “Cinderella,” from the where’s-the-downbeat intro to the dissonant note that repeats — irregularly — through nearly the entire
Isabelle Huppert stands upstage center, demurely holding her hands in front of her waist, and starts to speak. She is motionless and in silhouette so
World literature is filled with descriptions of courtyards opening into courtyards opening into even more elaborate and beautiful courtyards and gardens. Real versions have existed,
Jalet, who choreographed Luca Guadagnino’s horror movie “Suspiria,” knew Saldaña only from the movie “Avatar.” When he discovered “Center Stage,” he grasped that she would
When the director Wes Anderson and the actors Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray and Gwyneth Paltrow took the stage in 2011 for a panel celebrating the
ASAP Rocky is well aware that his life could be very different right now. “I feel so lucky to even be here talking to you,”
“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a
A trove of old masters put together by Thomas A. Saunders III, a former chairman of the influential conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, and
