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By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. June 8, 2026 “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, …

Singer-songwriter P!nk hosted The 79th Tony Awards on Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The 79th Annual Tony Awards …

For years, fans eagerly anticipated the oft-floated idea of a spinoff from the cultishly beloved 1997-2003 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As described by creator Joss Whedon, this miniseries …

The genius of her work was in painting things as she saw them through her own eyes. So when she surrounded herself with beauty, her work reflected it Photographs by …

In a recent interview with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli for the New York Times podcast Popcast, Olivia Rodrigo declared that she’s not a “fashion girl” when asked why she …

In 1969, the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, in Washington, D.C., debuted a new exhibit: “The Rat: Man’s Invited Affliction.” The display—complete with live rats—was different from what people were used to …

Lynsey Austin was asked to step in just two weeks before the ceremony took place on the Isle of Man.

You made it time. If you want to look a little longer, just scroll back up and press “Continue.” You and I are in a room in Lois Dodd’s house …

When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer’s mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision’s reverberations across generations …

Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere …