Culture

These excellent new memoirs examine creative expression, self-creation, and power structures. ‘Reading the Waves’ by Lidia Yuknavitch $29 $27 Amazon $29 $27 Bookshop “Memories are conjurings,” writes Lidia Yuknavitch in...

Standup legend and self-proclaimed “Roastmaster General” Jeff Ross blasted cancel culture and the “fake rules” that some critics try to place over comedy to keep it from being too offensive....

A senior football official has rebutted criticism from the European Parliament over awarding the 2034 Men’s World Cup to Saudi Arabia. Mattias Grafström, secretary-general of the world football governing body...

Hello, and welcome to Group Chat, where culture reporters Rebecca Jennings and Alex Abad-Santos discuss the topics currently blowing up our (and probably your) phones. Old people have fretted about...

Costco shoppers shared their opinions about the company’s “commitment” to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the wake of many other retailers scaling back their DEI efforts. “Baloney, to...

“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón issued an apology Thursday after online users resurfaced her past posts on social media in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd...

Actor Idris Elba announced amid his forthcoming knife crime documentary that the United Kingdom must consider “innovative” prevention methods such as blunting or banning knives. According to IMDb, the documentary,...

Share Irving Azoff says organizing FireAid has kept him too busy to sleep Irving and Shelli Azoff, who are co-hosting the concert in conjunction with other powerful partners, helped pull...

It was September 2023, and a certain sweatshirt wouldn’t leave me alone. It was heather gray with a grid of 12 pickle jars on it, and it showed up on...

Washington state’s attorney general is standing by Costco as the retail giant resists conservative pressure to ditch its diversity, equity and inclusion practices. This week, 19 Republican attorneys general sent...