Arts

This interview includes spoilers for the series finale of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Almost exactly eight years ago, the husband-and-wife writing partners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen were having a...

The past few years have seen artificial intelligence reach a tipping point, fueled by record levels of investment and the growing availability of training data. Yet what we see today is...

In the mid-1970s, more often than not, the news coming from Washington was dreary. TV screens filled with images of the Watergate hearings, the war in Vietnam and an economy...

On Election Day in 2018, Neil Young posted a frustrated statement about President Trump. Three years earlier, Mr. Trump had used Mr. Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World” —...

We’re so excited to announce Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness as BuzzFeed Book Club’s September selection. Cook’s debut novel reveals a too-familiar version of our world, divided into generic spaces:...

When you’re in a new relationship, meeting the parents is kind of a big deal. But when you’re dating a member of the royal family? Well, it’s an even bigger...

BERLIN — It’s not looking good for Berlin’s art scene, if you believe the newspaper headlines. This spring, Die Welt, a German daily, called the city an “art metropolis in...

On a sun-dazzled morning in early July, the actor Leslie Odom Jr. readied himself for another take. At a marble-topped table in a Los Angeles bungalow, he pecked at a...

On the last day of his life, Frederick Douglass attended a meeting of the National Women’s Council. The prodigious orator and abolitionist came home to Cedar Hill, his hilltop house...

I didn’t like Leslie Knope at first. Then again, who did? Leslie, played by Amy Poehler, was the heroine of “Parks and Recreation,” a half-hour comedy on NBC that debuted...