A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Announcing the award, Rebecca Hussey, a member of the autobiography committee, praised the memoir, “Patriot,” as … Read more
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube In the almost five years since the release of “Whole Lotta Red,” Playboi Carti’s second studio album, the Atlanta rapper graduated from a potentially influential internet curio to a full-blown, era-defining headliner. Still, even while closing festivals with his brand of mosh pit mayhem … Read more
“Shared Custody” is a light divorce drama, though it is perhaps better seen as a cellphone drama: the buzzing, the ringing, the texting, the “just one second,” the deleted messages, the accidental photo uploads, the app notifications. Is everyone disconnected, or is everyone too connected? The show, on Hulu (in Spanish, with subtitles, or dubbed), … Read more
Lenny Schultz, a wild-eyed comedian who became known in the 1970s and ’80s for high-energy performances that he delivered with a mouthful of sound effects and a table full of silly props, died on Sunday at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 91. His son and only immediate survivor, Mark, confirmed the death. … Read more
J.B. Moore, an advertising man from suburban Long Island who wrote the lyrics to one of rap’s first hits — Kurtis Blow’s 1979 novelty song, “Christmas Rappin’” — and with a partner, Robert Ford, produced that rapper’s albums as he became a breakout star in the early 1980s, died on March 13 in Manhattan. He … Read more
Yet Picasso himself was not interested in spawning a following, said Anne Baldassari, one of the world’s foremost Picasso scholars. Baldassari was the president of the Picasso Museum in Paris from 2005 to 2014, and in 2012 staged what was then the largest Picasso exhibition in Hong Kong: a solo show with 56 paintings and … Read more
Hong Kong is a difficult place to run an independent bookshop. Rents are high and space is limited, but navigating the law has also become harder in recent years. China imposed a strict national security law on Hong Kong in 2020, and the government has also begun enforcing a dormant, colonial-era sedition law. The laws’ … Read more
At a certain point, we have to start feeling bad for the last five famous actors who have not yet appeared on a lighthearted streaming murder show. They didn’t get to be the detective, or the murderer, or the one with the biggest secret, but not even being cast as themselves in a winky, self-aware … Read more
As he pored over old news archives, the painter Chow Chun Fai was trying to work out what could be said about a transformed Hong Kong. His exhibition, “Interview the Interviewer II,” is the second installment in several years of collaboration with Sharon Cheung, a former television journalist, who covered diplomatic news from 1995 to … Read more
Pearl Lam has been at the forefront of Hong Kong’s art scene for decades — a larger-than-life native-born gallerist who is known in arts circles for speaking her mind and knowing the best restaurants in town. She opened her first gallery, in Shanghai, in 2005, rather than join her family’s development business. She has referred … Read more