When John Holiday was growing up in Texas, he went to church every single day. His grandmother—he calls her Big Mama—encouraged Holiday and his siblings to sing, but, one by one, as they grew up, they stopped, except for Holiday, Read More …

We had a town house, but we weren’t allowed to touch it. I had to be lifted up by the armpits to peer inside. The brick façade appeared to be cut from a single sheet, but, if you looked closely, Read More …

The state of movie comedy is so frail that the amiable, exuberant, conventional new comedy “Blockers,” which maintains good spirits and sustains good gags without excessive contrivance, comes off as a welcome, robust pillar of the genre. The film, directed Read More …

In 1960, Gerry Goffin and Carole King were toiling in a Brooklyn basement apartment. The couple, married the year before, had written dozens of songs but hadn’t scored a hit. Then they caught a break: Florence Greenberg, a record producer, Read More …

The big shebang this week is the Met Breuer’s “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body,” a sprawling, at times carnivalesque survey of three-dimensional approaches to the human figure over the past two thousand years. A few blocks north, at Read More …

On Monday, National Geographic opened its April issue with a sombre letter from the editor, Susan Goldberg, presented with the even more sombre headline “For Decades, Our Coverage was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It.” “The Read More …

“Corporate,” on Comedy Central, is a show defined by its lighting. This half-hour comedy should win a special Emmy for its skill in evoking the degraded radiance of life under the fluorescent tubes of a nauseating office environment. In the Read More …

There’s a Francophile aspect to the films of the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo that’s reflected in his occasional decision to film in France and with French actors—as in his new film, “Claire’s Camera,” which was shot in Cannes and Read More …

On December 14, 1992, an eighteen-year-old student at Bard College of Simon’s Rock, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, took a taxi down the snow-covered Berkshire hills to nearby Pittsfield, where he purchased an SKS semiautomatic assault rifle at Dave’s Sporting Goods. Read More …

The first episode of Season 2 of “GLOW,” on Netflix, depicts the production of a title sequence for the show-within-the-show: a low-budget, all-woman pro-wrestling spectacle for a local cable network in the San Fernando Valley. Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), ever Read More …