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 ...

The result is not perfection, because it’s impossible to “copy” a record without some loss of its primal quality; yet a comparison of this new version with any of the old Caruso pressings is the ...

Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture ...

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

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

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

He had never fought in New York but he made a fine stir in his own town and its environments; a volunteer brass band composed of a cornet, a trombone, and drum-and-cymbals went around to fight clubs ...

Just cows, cows, cows seems to he my recollection of “Riders of the Purple Sage,” one of these western Zane Grey products. Instead of a volcano erupting all over the place, there is an avalanche in ...

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 ...