About 45 minutes into A Complete Unknown, Joan Baez tells Bob Dylan he’s “kind of an asshole.” As the scene plays, I suspect ...

Italy is a magical, mystical blend of timeless history and artistic masterpieces; scenery that will take your breath away; ...

Donald Trump’s pick of twice-defeated Arizona gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake as director of the Voice of ...

Nick Harkaway, the pseudonymous author of the new novel Karla’s Choice (dubbed by the publisher “A John Le Carré novel”), is ...

Making a film about a terminally ill woman who must decide her own fate is a brave and challenging one for any director. Brave, because in the flashy, fast-moving business of today’s moviedom, such ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate ...

My borrowed Paris apartment takes up the entire fourth floor of a Haussmann-era building. It’s elegantly furnished and filled with art. The owners—he, Parisien, she, Américaine—have installed a ...

Merriam-Webster landed on “polarization” for its Word of the Year. The dictionary maker defined the term as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, ...

The editing and story are reminiscent of the movie Jacob’s Ladder in that the main character and viewer are lost in reality and unsure of what’s really going on. It becomes clear early on that some or ...

The Bentley was parked and idling at the curb. As always, my driver Emil Vaka stood by the open rear door, his own uniform of ancient Habsburg design garlanded with regal epaulets. I already pictured ...

Hamilton uses what some might call colorblind casting, but it goes beyond colorblind. The show is intentionally diverse, meaning white historical figures are often portrayed by minority actors as a ...