Arts and Entertainment

Stand Up!

Stand Up! Stand Up!

Defend our democracy.

Jul 10, 2025 / OppArt / India Tresselt

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, May 5, 2017

Billy Hart’s Life in Rhythm Billy Hart’s Life in Rhythm

The legendary jazz drummer played with Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz. His new memoir tells all—and lays out his own philosophy.

Jul 9, 2025 / Billy Hart

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon

Trump’s defense secretary loves taking selfies while presiding over administrative anarchy.

Jul 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Great Authors Are Just As Human as the Rest of Us

Great Authors Are Just As Human as the Rest of Us Great Authors Are Just As Human as the Rest of Us

A new play about Roald Dahl shows the now-controversial children’s writer in his flawed, complicated reality.

Jul 7, 2025 / Katha Pollitt

Fourth of July reenactors march through Massachusetts

Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great

By attacking equality of citizenship, MAGA is smashing the foundations of national pride.

Jul 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Closeup of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr adjusting his tie.

Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator

With a new GOP majority, the incoming FCC boss aims to punish criticism, reward obedience—and screw the public.

Jun 25, 2025 / Sam Gustin

Seth Rogen’s Toothless Hollywood Satire

Seth Rogen’s Toothless Hollywood Satire Seth Rogen’s Toothless Hollywood Satire

The Studio is pitched as a send-up of the idiocy of the entertainment industry, but its potshots are harmless, even friendly.

Jun 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi

Alexandra Cooper is seen leaving the Call Her Alex premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2025, in New York City.

Alexandra Cooper of “Call Her Daddy” Calls It Harassment Alexandra Cooper of “Call Her Daddy” Calls It Harassment

A new Hulu-produced series by the podcast superstar documents years of sexual harassment and institutional cover-up within Boston University’s athletics department.

Jun 25, 2025 / Ray Epstein

Left: Ford to City: Drop Dead reads front page of the New York “Daily News” for October 30, 1975. Right: Felix Rohatyn seated in front of a microphone.

The Death and Rebirth of New York City The Death and Rebirth of New York City

A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as history—or politics.

Jun 24, 2025 / Doug Henwood

Exterior of The Bitter End coffee house, a venue specializing in live acoustic folk music, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1960s.

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

Jun 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni

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