Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Capote's journalistic transgressions were serious, but there is no denying the awesome influence of his work.
Capote's journalistic transgressions were serious, but there is no denying the awesome influence of his work.
Also: Bang on a Can and St. Vincent in Richard Foreman's "What to Wear," the celestial folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Jennifer Wilson and Richard Brody on comfort in the cold weather, and more.
A Broadway revival arrives at a moment when paranoia plots are everywhere.
Fear of what the dead might do to us didn't start with Dracula, and it didn't end with him, either.
On the eve of his new book, "Never Mind the Happy," the composer dishes on his career ups and downs"from touring with Bette Midler to getting caught in Twitter wars.
"Heiresses," "I Deliver Parcels in Beijing," "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls," and "Estate."
Readers respond to Rebecca Mead's Profile of Stephen Fry and Rivka Galchen's piece about geothermal energy.
A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.
Also: "Tartuffe" mania, the guitar stylings of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams, Justin Chang's movies for a new year, and more.
The author discusses her novella "The Ice-Skater."
The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of "Veracruz sound."
Also: Vinson Cunningham on his favorite songs of the year.
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss "In the Waiting Room," by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem "Love Poem Like We Used to Write It."
Tahra Zafar has made creatures for "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars." Her latest project? Bringing the beloved bear to the stage.
Jim Jarmusch's three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children's relationships with thei…
"Daring to Be Free," "The Second Estate," "Best Offer Wins," and "A Love Story from the End of the World."
Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues.
Readers respond to Antonia Hitchens's piece about Laura Loomer, Jill Lepore's article about the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, and Amanda Petrusich's Profil…
Whatever became of Don Sample?
A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts.
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they've crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke's band, many of which are now on view at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
Also: Graciela Iturbide's tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in "Song Sung Blue," the coke-rap of Clipse, and more.
It's been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.
Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the "military-industrial-complex romantic comedy" "Atropia," recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fak…
The director's great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.