Arts

Ernest Cline discusses Ready Player Two — hosted by BookPeople, 7 p.m. CT. More info. Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby discuss The Sacrifice of Darkness — hosted...

Ottobah Cugoano, an 18th-century anti-slavery campaigner who wrote the most radical abolitionist text of its time, has become the earliest black figure to receive a blue plaque. The plaque on...

How many people held up half-empty champagne glasses before midnight on December 31, 2019 to declare, “2020 is going to be my year!” – only to be hit with a...

Art for art’s sake was the doctrine of the 19th-century bohemians who believed it should be created not for commercial purposes, but for the sake of greater creative exploration and...

Al Jazeera English Online’s new digital vérité series, Fly on the Wall, has won a prestigious Association of International Broadcasters (AIB) award for best short documentary. Taking a purely observational approach,...

Spoilers ahead for the premiere episode of Big Sky. David E. Kelley’s dramas are known for being twisty and unpredictable (see: Big Little Lies, The Undoing), and his new ABC...

The director of Nicolas Cage’s new martial-arts movie, “Jiu Jitsu,” says the actor knows what he’s doing. “Nic is trained in jujitsu,” Dimitri Logothetis told Page Six. “He knew an...

Barack Obama knows how to tell a good story. He published his first memoir, Dreams from My Father, about his upbringing as the son of a Kansas-born mother and Kenyan...

Administrators at the Burbank Unified School District have determined that a variety of classic novels — including Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and more — will no longer be...

The Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford is launching a book club so that all children can experience the escapism of reading. Teaming up with Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB)...