Taking place during the final five years of Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent captures the visible fractures ...

By now, most “Best Books of the Year” lists have already appeared, with many of the same titles recurring from one “best of” ...

Michael B. Jordan excels in a dual role, playing identical twin brothers Smoke and Stack, a pair of smalltime hustlers who ...

Timothée Chalamet delivers one of his best performances to date in Marty Supreme, an off-kilter character study of a low-rent ...

Disney’s track record with sequels isn’t great, but it made sense to make Zootopia 2, considering how successful the first one was. This sequel does a good job of juggling different themes and tropes ...

Benoit Blanc, “the world’s greatest detective,” returns with beaucoup charm and Cajun curiosity in the third Knives Out whodunnit: Wake Up Dead Man. Like its predecessors, Dead Man is a delightful ...

The Gemini space program of the mid-1960s might be compared with its same-age newborn cohorts of the era, Generation X. Gen Xers came after the Baby Boomers, the largest and most attention-seeking ...

Traveling through Turkey, I quickly realized the true locals aren’t just the people—they’re the cats. From Istanbul’s colorful bazaars to Cappadocia’s dreamlike fairy chimneys and Çeşme’s shimmering ...

A collection of her short fiction, At the Turn of the Century, was published posthumously in 2018, and now there’s Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories, which should be the final word on this ...

A couple years ago on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” host Terry Gross talked with musician David Byrne about some of his favorite Christmas music. Naturally, his picks were eclectic, intellectually curious, and ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...