Katy Waldman A staff writer covering books and culture.

Sea lampreys—invasive, leechlike creatures that once nearly destroyed the Great Lakes’ fishing economy—are kept in check by a ...

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In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, ripe with eco-paranoia, the actress and Jesse Plemons come to physical and psychological blows.

As the Trump Administration tries to rescue symbols of the Lost Cause, an exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, ...

Ripe on the bough hang shelves of sugary pies, Here on the ground roll kegs of potent cider, Beneath each branch an apple betty lies; Thick-sliced, a windfall deep-fries in the spider; Rare fruit, ...

Last spring, on an excursion to Boston to get some clam chow-der made with milk (and that shows the state our country is in today when a New Yorker has to go to Boston to get clam chowder made with ...

Forty - Fourth STREET has gone dreivierteltakt. The Civic Light Opera Company, which, under a variety of styles, Milton Aborn has been operating about town for several years, staged a Viennese ...

A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria ...

The shows I loved the most were at Jackie 60, spearheaded by the irreplaceable Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell, the ...

Such bitter reveries as these prevent me from submitting an unreservedly enthusiastic report on Virginia Woolf’s “Flush,” which Harcourt, Brace publish this week in a charming illustrated edition. If ...

First they blinked at his failures, then exhorted him, and finally discovered a new hero in Boeseke, who promptly became Big Bo and Elmer to them, and satisfied his vociferous gallery with seven goals ...