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A luxury hotel marries the exotic and the familiar: The location may be new and the fruits at the breakfast buffet varied, but the thread count of the sheets, the indulgence of the staff, the sumptuousness of the spa — these remain the same. “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s HBO show about the guests and … Read more

In 2018, the curator Catherine Taft began researching an exhibition on ecofeminism, assuming it would be a retrospective on a philosophy that had fallen out of fashion. Ecofeminism emerged from environmental, feminist, social justice and antinuclear activism in the 1970s. The movement resists traditional systems of patriarchy and capitalism that it contends subjugate women and … Read more

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Steve Olive was my white whale. I had been trying for two years to write a profile of Mr. Olive, the co-founder of Event Carpet Pros, the California-based company responsible for custom-making the colorful, though … Read more

A once-beloved king slips into madness as wary confidants surround him, breathless for his next maneuver. A soldier wrestles with his dueling loyalties toward family and friendship. A young man from a humble background defeats a brute, not knowing that the victory sets him on a path to ascend into power. With its interpersonal intrigue … Read more

Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in the late 1970s with the Sequence, one of the first all-female rap groups, who later switched gears as a solo R&B star with hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” died on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala. She was 63. Her agent, Deborah … Read more

Christian Holder, a standout dancer for the Joffrey Ballet who made his name in the 1960s and early ’70s in pointedly topical works like “Astarte,” a groundbreaking psychedelic ballet, and “The Green Table,” a haunting 1930s antiwar ballet made newly relevant by the Vietnam War, died on Feb. 18 at his home in London. He … Read more

Season 3, Episode 4: ‘12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis’ What does justice look like to the Yellowjackets? It’s not pretty, it’s not logical, it’s often deeply unfair, and it’s all on display in this week’s episode. The centerpiece is a trial in the woods in the 1990s. The girls, having now found Ben, … Read more

David Johansen, the singer and songwriter who was at the vanguard of glam rock and punk as the frontman of the New York Dolls, died yesterday at his home on Staten Island. He was 75. His death was confirmed by his stepdaughter, Leah Hennessey. Mr. Johansen revealed last month that he was suffering from Stage … Read more

‘Delia’ (2000) When his career as Poindexter was running its course, Johansen reclaimed his own name on two albums of prewar American folk music. “Delia,” which recounts the murder of an African American teenage girl in 1900, had been covered by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and, umm, Pat Boone. Johansen sometimes crept to the doorstep … Read more

To walk into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stately brick home outside Baltimore is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that small children live there. It’s not that the kitchen floor is a Lego minefield or that the double staircase is lined with low-hanging fingerprints — quite the opposite. It’s that the house rings with … Read more