Billy Woods Is Scary Good at Rapping
His 12th solo album, “Golliwog,” arrives at a peak in his career as a verbally inventive, independent hip-hop artist. It’s also full of horror stories.
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In Her Botanical Paintings, Hilma af Klint Hurtles Back to Earth
At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine.
Anatomy of a $70 Million Auction Flop
Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday?
Max, antes conocido como HBO Max, vuelve a llamarse HBO Max. ¿Entendido?
Los ejecutivos de Warner Bros. Discovery han decidido regresar al nombre de HBO Max para el servicio de transmisión en continuo. Es el cuarto cambio de nombre de la aplicación en la última década.
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ Review: Tom Cruise Defies All
For the eighth installment of this stunt-spectacular franchise, the star returns to fight off A.I. planetary domination, the bends, gravity and maybe mortality itself.
Restaurant Critic Confidential
Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.
250 Years of Capitalism: Soulless, Exploitative and All but Unstoppable
A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global financial order.
In Dark Comedies Like ‘Friendship,’ Bad Bromance Brews
A spate of recent indie films provide a complicated, sometimes solemn take on male friendship.
‘The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse’ Review: Down the Y2K Clickhole
In Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s fizzy new musical, an internet sleuth searches for a pop star wannabe who went missing along with her low-rise jeans.
Seven Takes on Opera’s Most Lurid Dance
“I’m ready,” Salome sings. And then she dances. Her predatory stepfather has promised her anything she wants if she performs for him. She obliges with the alternately wild and delicate Dance of the Seven Veils, one of the most famous numbers in all …