Photo Lil Uzi Vert at the MTV Video Music Awards in August. His new album, “Luv Is Rage 2,” debuted at No. 1. Credit Danny Moloshok/Reuters A new generation of rappers with anarchic approaches to social media and free digital distribution on platforms like SoundCloud is riding the streaming wave …

The sense that we might, at any given screening, find ourselves at the start of a path that will terminated next March at the Dolby Theater (where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences holds its little conclave) puts scribblers in a bit of a bind. We’d rather make …

Mr. Eustis was back the next night, having traded a sopping “Fun Home” hoodie for a rumpled suit, and warning that the cast’s pent-up excitement might cause the theater to levitate. With the laws of physics on notice, Ms. Taub appeared, dressed like a folksy stage manager in a sweater …

The effect is exhausting — and deadening. Anything can happen, so nothing matters. Rushdie is obsessed with “characters,” as Alfred Kazin once said of John Irving, yet somehow does not evoke the more difficult thing: character. There is a reason to consider sticking with all 380 pages of “The Golden …

It would also maybe explain why Cooper can’t fix everything by changing the past. We see a repeat of a few key scenes from the “Twin Peaks” pilot, altered so that Laura’s body is no longer “wrapped in plastic” by the lake. But despite these alterations, Laura’s old house still …

Alex Wong | Staff | Getty Images An Alibaba employee demonstrates ‘Smile to Pay’, an automatic payment system that authorize payment via facial recognition The technology is available to customers registered to the Alipay app – the mobile and online payment platform established in Hangzhou by Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma. …

The Met, through Kenneth Weine, its spokesman, said a new director is expected to be named next year. For the moment the museum seems to be heading into smoother waters under the guidance of Daniel H. Weiss, 60, who became the museum’s president in 2015, and, after a restructuring in …

Norsar website A comparison of the seismic readings of each of North Korea’s nuclear tests from Norway-based geoscience research foundation Norsar, which works to verify compliance wtih the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. “North Korea claims that this was a test of a hydrogen bomb; the same claim was made …

Monica Schipper | Stringer | Getty Images Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the 2017 Stephan Weiss Apple Awards on June 7, 2017 in New York City. Hillary Clinton endorsed a new political media platform on Sunday, shortly before an alleged cyberattack forced the website offline. Clinton surprised many of her …

Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England (BOE) in the City of London, U.K. David Ramsden joined the Bank of England (BOE) Monday as deputy governor for markets, with analysts expecting the economist to stick to a dovish line for the bank and …