BRYAN R. SMITH | AFP | Getty Images A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average, May 10, 2017 in New York Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell: Shares of L Brands dropped …

Instead, “Wild Things” is relaxed, discursive and personal, a survey course centering on the writers to whom Handy especially responds. He analyzes their best works; provides cultural, historical and personal context; and salts his research with a grain or two of developmental psychology. Photo Bruce Handy Credit Denise Bosco The …

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks at a news conference prior to the inaugural round of North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2017. The United States, Canada and Mexico held a joint news conference in Washington on Wednesday, as …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, center, talks to Bob Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, next to Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, secretary of economy for Mexico, right, after opening statements during the first round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations in Washington, …

Photo Penélope Cruz as a Hollywood star who returns to her native Spain to make a movie in Fernando Trueba’s “Queen of Spain.” Credit Lucie Deluz “The Queen of Spain,” a light ensemble romp from the veteran director Fernando Trueba, has fun with movie lore even as it pillories Hollywood’s …

I can’t recall a night at the theater as electric as the performance of “Julius Caesar” in the park that was halted when a protester stormed the stage and had to be escorted out. Was that a sign of theater’s power? A misreading of Shakespeare? Both? Photo Corey Stoll, above, …

Angela Merendino | AFP | Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, Otto Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Uber. San Francisco district judge William Alsup said in a hearing on Wednesday he’ll likely tell the jury that Uber lawyers “misled the court” and repeatedly withheld key documents, which could give Alphabet self-driving …

In Minneapolis, Frank Conniff, a writer and co-star of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” found the ad had become “implanted in my head,” he said by phone. “Of all the staff, I was the one who most actively read the trades,” he recalled. “The ad always struck me as funny, but …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump walks towards the White House on the South Lawn after disembarking Marine One in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Since Monday, several members of the manufacturing council stepped down in response to comments Trump made both Saturday …

Photo Samuel L. Jackson as a contract killer with a curious sense of moral grace in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard.” Credit Jack English/Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Samuel L. Jackson is the hit man. Ryan Reynolds is the bodyguard. What more do you want me to say? These two sometime residents of different …