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“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” picks up where “Wolf Hall” left off, amid the gruesome beheading of Anne Boleyn in 1536, which we get to see this time in even more gruesome detail. In real life, however, there has been an unusually long gap between series and sequel. It has been 10 years … Read more

Brian James, who helped spark the punk-rock revolution in Britain in the 1970s as the lead guitarist and chief songwriter of the British band the Damned, bringing a rare degree of musicality to a genre known for its chain-saw attack, died on March 6. He was 70. His death was announced on his Facebook page. … Read more

Marty Callner, a pioneering director of comedy specials who set the template for the genre at HBO in the 1970s before going on to make music videos infused with humor during the early heyday of MTV, died on March 17 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 78. His son Jazz Callner said the … Read more

It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its Oscar-nominated lead man, Paul Mescal, has people clamoring for tickets to BAM’s production this month. The excitement recalls a period when the performing arts center consistently drew crowds to … Read more

Earlier this month Sasha Stone watched the Oscars alone at her home in a town outside Los Angeles. For someone who has spent more than two decades as one of the premier chroniclers of awards season, it was a notably unglamorous way to take in the ceremony. But she was thrilled that “Anora,” the frantic … Read more

For much of her life, Catherine Raven felt worthless. Then she befriended a fox. After growing up in an abusive home where she felt unwanted, Raven moved out at 15, and never quite felt comfortable around other people. In 2003, she was living in a cottage in a remote valley in Montana, working as a … Read more

“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the perennial hit song by Mariah Carey that has become a holiday ear worm for the ages, was not stolen from other songwriters, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled this week. In addition to dismissing the music copyright case, the judge, Mónica Ramírez Almadani, ordered the two … Read more

Thomas Hoobler, who with his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books across a vast range of subjects, including young-adult biographies of Margaret Mead, mystery novels set in 18th-century Japan and, most recently, a book about presidential love letters with the attention-grabbing title “Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?,” died on Feb. 22 … Read more

A rediscovered painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt that captured visitors’ attention at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in the Netherlands is under negotiation for sale, the Vienna-based gallery offering the work said as the event closed on Thursday evening. The early, almost photorealistic head-and-shoulders portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, shown against … Read more

Dear readers, To live in this city is sometimes to be subject to random, unheralded encounters with the great and the good: a sitcom star fumbling for her MetroCard; a famously misanthropic novelist, happy as a clam in the stands at a Yankees game; a disgraced former governor looking entirely too unbothered at the bagel … Read more