Arts & Entertainment

Recommendations and analysis of the movies, books, music and TV that should be on your radar this week and beyond.

Anthony Bourdain's Final Book "World Travel: An Irreverent Guide"

Anthony Bourdain’s Final Book, “World Travel,” Hits Shelves This Year

The "irreverent guide" is available for pre-order now

Jimmy Hoffa

Chasing Jimmy Hoffa's Shadow Beyond "The Irishman"

Goodnight Moon

The Bizarre Reason “Goodnight Moon” Didn’t Make the NYPL’s Top 10 Checkouts List

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The Art of Curating the Perfect Home Library

Daphne Guinness and Peter McGough

Inside the Tumultuous Artistic Partnership of McDermott & McGough

book

This Is the Popular Novel You're Least Likely to Finish

best books january 2020

The 7 New Books You Should Be Reading This January

Jeopardy

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for January

An Affordable Way to Own a Rare Work by David Hockney

An Affordable Way to Own a Rare Work by David Hockney

Obama 2019 Summer Reading List

Arts & Entertainment

Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books of 2019

The 19 Best Photo Books of 2019

Arts & Entertainment

The 19 Best Photo Books of 2019

Illustration from future Pope's novel

15th Century Pope Wrote Erotic Novel

Universal's "Cats" adaptation is entirely too horny. But it is not without precedent.

Arts & Entertainment

How Did We Become So Horny for Cats?

The Far Side

The Creator of “The Far Side” Distrusted the Internet. Now, He’s Embracing It.

Lovecraft's grave

Is the “Game of Thrones” Guys’ H.P. Lovecraft Movie Flawed From the Start?

"Peter Pan" edition

Original Manuscript of “Peter Pan” Offers a Darker Narrative

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” Coming to Showtime

Cookbook

Revisiting the 1970s Cookbook Designed for Orgies

The 15 Best Gifts for Culture Hounds

Arts & Entertainment

The 15 Best Gifts for Culture Hounds

Camus monument killed by KGB

Did the KGB Murder Albert Camus?

Jeff VanderMeer sci fi novelist

Author Jeff VanderMeer Searches for Where It All Went Wrong in “Dead Astronauts”

Milan Kundera

Author Milan Kundera Given Back His Czech Citizenship After 40 Years

apostrophe protection society

The Apostrophe Protection Society Is Officially Shutting Down

1917

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for December

Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Jami Attenberg, Casey Cep, nonfiction, fiction

The 20 Best Books of 2019

college textbooks

Arts & Entertainment

New Data Shows That Books Are Almost Always Better Than Their Movie Adaptations

ok boomer book

“OK Boomer” Book Is Already on Its Way

shakespeare texts

An Algorithm Can Tell Us How Much Shakespeare Was Actually Written by Shakespeare

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