Arts & Life

But his last known writing shows how Mr. Liu, whose fame began in the 1980s as a quarrelsome literary academic, remained an artistic soul who drew inspiration from Ms. Liu and feared for her future. She has lived under constant police watch since Mr. Liu received the Nobel Peace Prize. …

“The people who’ve gone before us have made a choice to not include black people in films, when black people were clearly there,” he said of other period films. “Ultimately, we did feel like we were more representative of that region and period.” Video Trailer: ‘Lady Macbeth’ A preview of …

Photo Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where on Saturday children are invited to enjoy activities tied to the 50th anniversary of the novel “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.” See listing below. Credit Filip Wolak Our guide to cultural events in New York City …

Phillips was reporting from a place few Americans knew firsthand, a place about which, in her story “Country,” we read: “This ain’t the South, Billy muttered, hung over, his head in his arms on the steering wheel, This is the goddamn past.” Phillips’s stories have one foot in the modern …

Photo Stephen Colbert felt the need to remind President Trump that he was on a diplomatic visit, “not one of your European wife-shopping trips.” Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you …

Photo Annie Parisse and Keegan-Michael Key in “Friends From College,” a comedy series on Netflix. Credit Barbara Nitke/Netflix Keegan-Michael Key and Cobie Smulders headline “Friends From College,” a comedy series from husband-and-wife Harvard grads about people presumably just like them. And “Chasing Coral” chronicles the death of reefs with imagery …

Photo Gemma Kaneko, left, and Brittany K. Allen in “True Right” at the New Ohio Theater. Credit Lauryn McCarter The president-turned-painter George W. Bush is at his easel when his brother Jeb walks in. George is working on a dual portrait — of himself with their father, the first President …

We, on the other hand, are taken directly into the tortured prince’s confidence. And when Mr. Isaac confides, we listen. Best known for his work in film (“Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”), he showed a vernacular ease with Elizabethan speech when he appeared as Romeo (to Lauren …

“Her poems,” Professor Carlson wrote, “dig deep into the Russian tradition and raise the powerful themes that have always tortured Russian poets: memory, history, fate, love, poetry, faith and freedom.” Ms. Ratushinskaya (pronounced ra-TOO-shin-SKY-yuh) wrote without rancor. “If you allow hatred to take root, it will flourish and spread,” she …

But Mr. Lynch’s perspective penetrates further into the smoke and fire of the blast, locating, it seems, the origins of the evil that the central characters of “Twin Peaks” are in constant battle with. This extraordinary sequence, using both a stationary camera and one that tracks forward with grim relentlessness, …