Arts & Entertainment

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

The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980 Film

Two Tony Award Winners Hope to Bring “The Shining” to Broadway

A new stage adaptation of Stephen King’s celebrated novel is in the works

1984

Amazon Is Selling Altered Versions of Orwell's '1984'

Obama 2019 Summer Reading List

On the Growing Influence of Barack Obama, Literary Tastemaker

Island

Where Great Surfing Meets Robinson Crusoe

Salinger novels

Digital Editions of J. D. Salinger’s Books Due Out This Week

(Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Inside the Weird World of Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories

Toni Morrison dead at 88 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Arts & Entertainment

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison Dead at 88

Spacey

Kevin Spacey Reads Poetry at National Roman Museum

Ready or Not

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for August

Best Books August 2019

The 7 Books You Should Read This August

Bestselling author, Delia Owens, and her then-husband in Zambia

The Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel Is Hiding a Dark History

Replica bus

Another Tourist Has Died Seeking the “Into the Wild” Bus

Envelope full of money

6 Thrilling Books About Real-Life Corruption

Gore Vidal

Revisiting Gore Vidal’s Crime Fiction

Modern writers from Megan Abbott to Laura Lippman are influenced by Raymond Chandler

Arts & Entertainment

Why Raymond Chandler Still Matters

J Ryan Stradal Lager Queen of Minnesota

Arts & Entertainment

The Great American Beer Novel Is Here, and We Talked to the Guy Who Wrote It

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Haunting Photos Show the Gritty Side of 1970s Tokyo

Haunting Photos Show the Gritty Side of 1970s Tokyo

Sam Shepard

Did Playwright Sam Shepard Predict the Future?

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

How Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Created the Modern Road Trip

Inside One of the Most Spectacular and Dangerous Bank Heists in U.S. History

Inside One of the Most Spectacular and Dangerous Bank Heists in U.S. History

Book interior

How M. F. K. Fisher Changed How We Think About Food

Game of Thrones tapestry

Adapting “Game of Thrones” in Tapestry Form

Dapper Dan

Menswear Lessons From Dapper Dan

MAD covers

MAD Magazine to Cease Printing New Material

Walmart

Why Did a Walmart Advertisement Feature Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”?

Walking Dead

‘The Walking Dead’ Just Abruptly Ended, But TV Fans Shouldn’t Worry

best books july

8 Books You Should Read This July

Midsommar best movies july

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The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for July

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