Arts

As surely as we turn ahead the clocks in March, in late May thousands in the publishing industry — authors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians and others — put on their...

Though she began writing at age 7, Grace Edwards waited until she was 55 to publish her first novel. That book, “In the Shadow of the Peacock,” was a lush...

As protests around the country against racism and police violence extend well into their second week, demand for books about race and anti-racism has surged. As of this writing, almost...

Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen A.O. Scott, The Times’s co-chief film critic, is (temporarily) wearing a different hat, writing a series of pieces for the...

PARIS — Guy Bedos, who drew inspiration from Lenny Bruce in becoming one of France’s most popular and bitingly satirical comics in a 60-year career that took him from nightclubs...

Robert Ford Jr., who as a journalist in the late 1970s was an early chronicler of the newly emerging hip-hop scene, and who then became a producer and mentor to...

The world is at its knees. In the wake of the senseless killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd, protestors are demanding justice for Black people...

After the tear gas was deployed and the protesting Americans muscled away from Lafayette Square just in time for Monday’s evening news, President Trump walked from the White House Rose...

Their faces are painted on the walls so that people will not forget. In Baton Rouge, La., grocery shoppers at the Triple S Food Mart walk by an image of...

PARIS — In October 2013, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris staged an extensive survey of the art of New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific that was colonized...