Writer Jennifer Finney Boylan recounts her joys and sorrows, and ruminates on mortality, through the lens of dogs she has known, lived with and loved.
Review
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes an astonishing directorial debut in ‘The Lost Daughter’
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a quietly astonishing directorial debut with “The Lost Daughter,” a crafty treatise on maternal ambivalence that delivers an unsettling emotional wallop. Olivia Colman plays Leda, a professor on sabbatical who has decided to spend time in Greece while working on her next book. As a woman of a certain age, abroad and […]
Jenni Fagan’s ‘Luckenbooth’ is a deliciously weird gothic horror
Set in Edinburgh, the book takes place in a nine-story building haunted by a rotating collection of troubled characters.
Book review: The extraordinary heroism of a single woman saved countless lives
Robert Mrazek’s book tells the riveting story of a little-known, exceptionally courageous Filipino woman who risked her own life to save American POWs during World World War II.
Art review: Abstract art allowed Shiao-Ping Wang to break free from confines of identity
Her works are on display at Buoy Gallery in Kittery through Feb. 13.
Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more
In our second pandemic year, our collective sense of frozen time began to thaw in drips and dribbles. Sometimes music helped get things gushing again: Bells were ringing, people were falling in and out of love, and the clock seemed to be ticking ahead. Other times, we were reminded that music is a temporal medium […]
‘Only Murders in the Building’ and other great shows you may have missed in 2021
We just wrapped up another tough and chaotic year, and it seems particularly important now to find joy wherever and however we can. If your self-care approach includes finding a funny, heartwarming or, even, appropriately dark TV show, you’re in the right place. Here are some of the hidden gems you may have missed amid […]
‘Sing 2’ may be an utterly unnecessary sequel, but who can resist singing animals?
Anyone up for an animated movie about talking animals? Make that singing animals (if autotune can be called singing.) Make that another movie about singing animals. Yes, “Sing 2” is here. No? Is everything OK? Seriously though: Matthew McConaughey? Reese Witherspoon? Seth MacFarlane? Scarlett Johansson? Nick Kroll? John C. Reilly? Taron Egerton? Tori Kelly? Did […]
‘Licorice Pizza’ is as aimless as a dream, but with its own offbeat logic
Paul Thomas Anderson has made it his business – and our pleasure – to return to the San Fernando Valley, where he came of age in the 1970s and which has served as his creative muse for most of his career. Like Fellini’s Italy or Scorsese’s New York, Anderson’s Los Angeles is rarefied yet strangely […]
As Washington’s farming techniques evolved, so did his views on slavery
What the first president’s own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.