Arts

  1. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone

    The writer Svetlana Alexievich, the author of oral histories who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, has given voice to thousands of ordinary Russians.

  2. Art Review
    Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces

    The final Artists Space exhibition at 38 Green Street stars Lukas Duwenhögger, a mesmerizing German artist who is barely known in this country.

  3. The Less You Know About ‘Preacher’ the Better. Just Watch It.

    This new AMC show follows “The Walking Dead” playbook. Can it also deliver the kind of characters that made “Mad Men” great?

  4. Critic's Notebook
    Cannes Keeps Its Traditions, Including Its Boos

    Though on alert, the film festival has maintained form in jeering some films, like Sean Penn’s “The Last Face,” and lauding others, like Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson.”

  5. 50 Essential Summer Festivals

    Listen to Beethoven’s Ninth at the foot of the Grand Tetons. Take in “Macbeth,” set in Ethiopia. Or see what Skrillex can concoct at the site of Woodstock. This season offers inspired contradictions, premieres and crowd-pleasing favorites.

  6. Critic's Notebook: The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance
  7. Review: Met Opera Orchestra Strikes an Emotional Note
  8. Popcast: Popcast: Chance the Rapper and Drake
  9. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Party Down,’ ‘Preacher’ and ‘Phoenix’
  11. Alan Young, the Affable Owner on ‘Mister Ed,’ Dies at 96
  12. Arts | Westchester: At the Rockefellers’ Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy
  13. Review: Irene Rodríguez Compañía Offers Flamenco With Flirtation
  14. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok
  15. Review: ‘Missing Dial’ Follows Parents in a Search for Their Vanished Son
  16. Day Out: Agyness Deyn on Moving From the Runway to the Big Screen
  17. Wealth Matters: Giving Like Michael Bloomberg: ‘Find One Small Thing’
  18. Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ and ‘The Humans’ Garner Awards From the Drama League
  19. An Artist Explores the Lives of Girls Labeled Difficult
  20. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s
  21. The Playlist: Searching for the Real Desiigner and Saying Farewell to a Punk Band
  22. This Week’s Movies: This Week’s Movies | May 20, 2016
  23. Calidore String Quartet Wins $100,000 M-Prize
  24. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Loses Longtime Cast Member Sara Ramirez
  25. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC
  26. Celebrities, in Open Letter, Urge Britons to Stay in E.U.
  27. Arts: Hot Chip in Liverpool and Cindy Sherman in Brisbane: Global Arts Guide
  28. Corner Office: Jane Rosenthal: Keep Coaxing Out the Spark in Others
  29. Q and A: What Reese Witherspoon Likes About the South
  30. A Ballerina’s Return From Maternity Leave
  31. Judge John Hodgman: Judge John Hodgman on Claiming Unlabeled Freezer Food
  32. In Central Park, Trying to Tame ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
  33. What’s New for Stew? A Blues Fable Told in Story and Song
  34. interactivePoem: For Long to Hold
  35. ‘Preacher’: Hellfire, Brimstone and the Perverse
  36. On DVD: On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America
  37. From Ballerina to Mom, and Back Again
  38. ‘Bloodline’ Returns to Netflix for Season 2
  39. Le Nain Brothers’ Prescient Work at Kimbell Art Museum

Dance

  1. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh
  2. Review: Beth Gill’s ‘Catacomb,’ Dreamlike and Site-Specific
  3. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry

Books

  1. Fiction: ‘LaRose,’ by Louise Erdrich
  2. Audiobooks: Gillian Flynn on Emma Thompson Reading ‘The Turn of the Screw’
  3. By the Book: Siddhartha Mukherjee: By the Book

Movies

  1. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives
  2. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms
  3. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall

Music

  1. Chance the Rapper Releases ‘Coloring Book,’ With Spirit
  2. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old
  3. Review: Anohni’s Declaration Against War

Television

  1. Review: Bryan Cranston Shines as Lyndon Johnson in ‘All the Way’
  2. Morley Safer, Mainstay of ‘60 Minutes,’ Is Dead at 84
  3. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era

Theater

  1. Review: In ‘Turn Me Loose,’ Raw Jokes That Still Sear and Bite
  2. The First Role for Many Actors: Waiter
  3. Dapper as Ever, Kid Creole Dresses Up His Songs for a New Musical

Art & Design

  1. Art Review: A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society
  2. Art Review: Placement Is Politics in Brooklyn Museum Reinstallation
  3. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week

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