Now with “Detroit,” this Oscar-winning filmmaker could be facing her most ambitious, and contentious, project to date. She is a white woman from Northern California telling a story of the black experience in civil rights era Detroit, which Ms. Bigelow said was not lost on her. It certainly was not …

Photo Trevor Noah wondered if the 2028 Olympics might catch a case of #OscarsSoWhite. Credit Comedy Central Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are you interested in? …

Matt Dunham | WPA Pool | Getty Images Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 2015. Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, will make his final solo appearance at an official engagement on Wednesday before he retires from active public life. Philip will attend a parade of Royal …

Photo Abby Miller, left, and Jessica Biel in “The Sinner.” Credit Brownie Harris/USA Network “The Sinner,” a new murder mystery starting on Wednesday on USA, doesn’t waste any time showing us who the murderer is. Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel), a woman who seems a little jumpy and perhaps a lot …

Photo Jessica Biel in “The Sinner.” Credit Brownie Harris/USA Network Jessica Biel plays against type as a seemingly normal young wife and mother with a latent violent streak. And “Obit” follows the obituary team at The New York Times as it commemorates the dead. What’s on TV THE SINNER 10 …

Photo A typewriter Ernest Hemingway used, displayed in his former home in Ketchum, Idaho. A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will help to preserve the house. Credit Matt Cilley/Associated Press A literacy program on American military bases, an effort to revitalize Native American languages, a four-part TV documentary about …

Yes, it’s August, in all its fire and fetor, and maybe you’d rather be at the beach. But new productions opening in New York this month offer consolation and stimulation (and essential air-conditioning) to those staying in the city. They include sharp-minded considerations of matters political, from Suzan-Lori Parks and …

The Beierwaltes are also suing the antiquities directorate in Lebanon as part of a federal lawsuit in which they argue that neither the Lebanese government nor Manhattan prosecutors have offered convincing proof that the item was stolen. The lawsuit also cites property rights, cultural patrimony laws, statutes of limitations and …

Chris Jung | NurPhoto | Getty Images The 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad) logo pictured on a bus window in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund has given 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) five days to make a $600 million payment, which the troubled Malaysian state fund failed to pay …

He has the intelligence to pull off a novel of this size but lacks, somehow, the killer instinct — the ability to move in for intensities of feeling and thought and action. He’s written a lukewarm book that seems far longer than its 383 pages. Consuming it is like being …