Arts & Life

Photo The documentary “Sled Dogs” makes a moving case for ending the use of these animals for racing and tourism Credit CCI Entertainment It’s easy to fall in love with the animals in “Sled Dogs.” It’s thornier to sift through the words of the handlers and mushers — many of …

Photo The band Operation Ivy at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, Calif., in 1988, as seen in “Turn It Around.” Credit Murray Bowles/Abramorama Punk history is full of lurid misadventures, and Corbett Redford’s thorough documentary, “Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk,” collects many of those “you had …

Photo Carlo Di Palma, left, with Michelangelo Antonioni. Credit Falkun Films When the Italian cinematographer Carlo Di Palma started out, he was a 15-year-old camera assistant on “Ossessione,” the 1943 Luchino Visconti movie that is widely considered the first Italian neorealist film. The new documentary “Water and Sugar: Carlo Di …

Photo Katrina Lenk, left, and Adina Verson in Paula Vogel’s “Indecent.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. Previews …

The executives in the book tell anchors to lay off presidential candidates, a message that Ms. Camerota said she received in real life from management because Roger Ailes, the late Fox News titan, did not want on-air talk about the accusations of sexual harassment against the Republican presidential candidate Herman …

Nearly 40 years ago, Ms. Allen landed on this island, and in this house, on assignment from Life magazine to profile Mr. Feiffer, who had written the screenplay for “Popeye,” the Robert Altman film, out in 1980. She was 25 and Mr. Feiffer 52, and when he asked her to …

Photo Matt Bomer and Dominique McElligott in “The Last Tycoon.” Credit Merie Wallace/Amazon Prime Video “The Last Tycoon,” Amazon’s new series inspired by the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, is certainly meticulous — the period costumes, the hairdos, the historical references. Yet attention to detail doesn’t buy passion, either in romance …

The Fussell book that detonates most forcefully, in my mind, at any rate, has always been “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System” (1983). There are few books like it in this country’s literature. Photo Paul Fussell in 1980. Credit Louis Liotta/New York Post Archives, NYP Holdings Inc., via …

Photo James Van Der Beek, who will be starring in the new Viceland show “What Would Diplo Do?” Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times It turns out that James Van Der Beek is funny. Defined for years by his title role as the earnest Everyboy in the teen …

Photo A scene from “Daughters of Destiny: The Story of Shanti Bhavan.” Credit Netflix “Daughters of Destiny” follows five girls from India’s lowest caste who are hoping to change their fates. And “Mad Max: Fury Road” might just be even better than watching Charlize Theron in “Atomic Blonde.” What’s Streaming …