‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemma
In this, her second feature, the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili takes on the risks faced by an obstetrician who performs kitchen-table abortions.
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‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: A Whole World Inside
A gorgeously intimate debut feature explores the lives of Chinese immigrants in a massage parlor in Queens.
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights.
A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds
For more than a century and a half, Central Park has been a leafy barometer of New York’s shifting fortunes. Projecting the city’s vast ambitions and ideals in the 19th century, it morphed into a Hooverville during the Depression, becoming a beehive …
No Power? No Problem. Nicole Scherzinger Sings With Bullhorn on Broadway.
The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.
Jelly Roll Should Be Pardoned for Drug and Robbery Offenses, Board Says
The Tennessee Board of Parole unanimously determined that the country star should be pardoned, but the decision is in the hands of the governor.
The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay
The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams
In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.
Being Married to Timothy Leary Was Tough. It Helped to Be High.
Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail.
Poems That Lean Into Calm and Joy Amid Life’s Chaos
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.