Arts & Life

For some of Ms. Cook’s friends, lyrics simply came easier than words as they sat in her bedroom alongside her son, Adam LeGrant; her longtime manager, Jeff Berger; and her assistant of nearly three decades, Louise Martzinek. Singing, after all, defined Ms. Cook’s life, from her success on Broadway as …

Three of its hosts — the celebrity chef Mary Berry and the comedians Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc — quickly quit in a messy public airing of grievances over the financially motivated change. They have been replaced. Photo The original hosts of “The Great British Bake Off,” from left: Paul …

Photo June Carter Cash, photographed by Editta Sherman. Credit New-York Historical Society The name Editta Sherman may not ring a bell, but she was the blithe spirit who flitted through “Bill Cunningham New York,” about the New York Times’s street-fashion photographer, who died in 2016. Sherman (1913-2013) was Cunningham’s muse, …

Photo Deborah E. Kennedy Credit Beth Behler TORNADO WEATHER By Deborah E. Kennedy 308 pp. Flatiron Books. $24.99. Entropy eats at Colliersville, Ind., the town at the center of Deborah E. Kennedy’s moving first novel. Teenagers prowl the edges of a defunct theme park. Apartments crumble under poverty and neglect. …

And while rap aficionados and theater nerds have exhaustively cataloged the rich referential web of Mr. Miranda’s “Hamilton” score, little attention has been paid to the show’s engagement with the music that Alexander Hamilton would have known in his lifetime. My Shot Video by Lin-Manuel Miranda – Topic American Revolutionary …

Photo Seth Meyers told President Trump: “If you don’t want people to start taking drugs, stop making them think the end of the world is imminent.” Credit NBC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What …

Photo Voyager 2 at Cape Kennedy in 1977, as seen in “The Farthest.” Credit Abramorama For any believer in humankind’s instinct to transcend boundaries, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, and the NASA team that produced them, inspire awe. “The Farthest,” a dazzling documentary written and directed by …

Photo David Berkowitz Credit CBS News David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the Son of Sam, speaks out on the 40th anniversary of his arrest. And on Netflix, a teenager with autism goes in search of a girlfriend. What’s on TV SON OF SAM: THE KILLER SPEAKS 10 p.m. on CBS. From July …

Photo A group of young French militants carry out a series of attacks in Paris in “Nocturama.” Credit Grasshopper Film “Nocturama” might be an interesting movie about terrorism if there were no such thing as terrorism. If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes …

Photo Today Malone selling The Berkeley Barb in Jack O’Connell’s documentary “Revolution,” at Anthology Film Archives. Credit Jack O’Connell Archives We’re living through the summer of golden anniversaries: The Detroit and Newark rebellions occurred 50 years ago this season, as did the releases of “Sgt. Peppers” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” …