“Mike’s book was roughly split between his arrangements of other tunes and his original tunes,” Mr. Snyder said of Mr. Longo’s repertoire, “and it was obvious it was all the same thing for him; even his arrangements were recompositions.” ImageMr. Longo was still with Mr. Gillespie when he released the …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Theater has begun streaming some of its most notable past performances online after being forced to shut its doors to the public as a result of tough new restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. A general view shows the empty hall …

In Kate Messner’s resonant, necessary CHIRP (Bloomsbury, 227 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12), 12-year-old Mia is on the mend — from a broken arm, after a fall from the balance beam, and more slowly, from the psychic scars left by a predatory coach. Image Mia’s family is moving back …

MUNICH — Germany’s robust cultural scene was among the first casualties of the coronavirus. On March 10, the country’s hundreds of theaters and opera houses began shutting down. Stages will remain dark until at least April 19. As everyday life here has come to a grinding halt, many theaters have …

Image ‘Afterlife,’ by Julia Alvarez (Workman, April 7) It’s been 14 years since Alvarez, the author of “In the Time of the Butterflies,” “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” and other books, published a new novel. Now she returns with the story of Antonia Vega, a retired professor mourning …

When it comes to reading in an emergency, in a moment of crisis and uncertainty, comfort seems to be the order of the day — old favorites, regressive pleasures, cozy classics. What happens if they fail you? Mine have (et tu, Wodehouse?), so I am here to champion the opposite: …

When Richard Marek was a young editor at Scribner’s in Manhattan in the early 1960s, he was entrusted with one of the literary world’s most important manuscripts, “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway’s intimate portrait of his life as an unknown writer in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway had scrawled his …

A 401(k) is one of the best ways to save for retirement, but there’s more than one type of employer-sponsored retirement account and knowing the differences can give you more options in the long run. One of the biggest perks of contributing to a traditional 401(k) is that doing so …

The theme song for “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” the original cast album for “Fiddler on the Roof” and the play-by-play broadcast of the thrilling 1951 National League tiebreaker between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers are among the 25 recordings just added to the Library …

The top-selling book on Amazon at the moment comes with a completion certificate for readers that says: “Great Job! You’re #1.” It’s a 320-page activity book for 3- to 5-year-olds, designed to help them master shapes, colors and letters of the alphabet, and it’s recently surged ahead of best-selling novels …