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Fifteen years after her blockbuster novel “The Help” sparked conversation and criticism for its portrayal of the lives of Black maids in the South, Kathryn Stockett is publishing a new novel. Set in 1933 in Oxford, Miss., “The Calamity Club” centers on a group of women whose lives intersect as they struggle to get by … Read more
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Tariff Trouble On Thursday, President Trump announced the suspension of tariffs he’d just imposed on imports from Canada and Mexico. On … Read more
Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with his bold yet intimate artistry, Caravaggio is again grabbing the spotlight, with a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini. Chronologically organized, the exhibition, titled “Caravaggio 2025,” … Read more
Most likely you know the outline of the case: Charles Manson, the failed musician and wild-eyed hippie, ordered his “family” — drug-addled runaways, mostly, who had been living with him at a ranch full of old movie sets — to carry out a series of gruesome murders on the evenings of Aug. 8 and 9, … Read more
Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when she joined Les Brown and His Orchestra in 1941 — in time to sing the praises of the New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio as he was racking up his major-league-record 56-game hitting streak. While performing that summer at a club in Armonk, N.Y., … Read more
Jordan Tkacsik was perusing his friend Paul Bartlett’s sports memorabilia and trading card shop last year when he noticed something unusual in a section full of Pokémon collectibles. It was a Cheetos cheese puff, but not just any Cheeto. Rather, it was a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto that bore an uncanny resemblance to Charizard, an orange … Read more
Over the years, Duane Keith Davis, who goes by Keffe D, has claimed in interviews and a memoir that he was in the white Cadillac when one of the other passengers shot and killed the rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996. When Mr. Davis was arrested and charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in … Read more
Son of a Jazz Man Ricardo Merrill Scofidio was born on April 16, 1935, in New York City to Earle and June Scofidio. His father, a jazz musician who played the alto saxophone and the clarinet, was Black, “but he insisted to his dying day that he was Italian,” Mr. Scofidio told Arthur Lubow for … Read more
We bring you a true grab bag of recommended books this week, united by little besides excellence and interest. There’s a wildlife memoir and a family history and the collected diaries of a celebrated Australian writer; there’s a supremely topical book about companies doing business in modern Russia. And in fiction, there’s a new novel … Read more
Over the years, Duane Keith Davis, who goes by Keffe D, has claimed in interviews and a memoir that he was in the white Cadillac when one of the other passengers shot and killed the rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996. When Mr. Davis was arrested and charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in … Read more