Arts & Life

Photo Denis Johnson in 1985. Credit Jack Manning/The New York Times The obituaries for the novelist and poet Denis Johnson, who died in May at age 67, mentioned his National Book Award, his many rave reviews, his almost saintly status as “a writer’s writer’s writer.” Now, he is collecting another …

In addition to visiting a dozen archives in the United States and Britain, Professor Silverman ferreted out material at a country auction in Amherst, Mass., and in the basement of a Veterans Administration hospital in Grafton, Mass. “The author seems virtually to have taken up residence inside Mather’s head and …

She eventually chafed under the contract she signed with Mr. Douglas. He wrote that he ended the deal because she was impatient about the money she was being paid. But she insisted that she ended it after he lent her to Universal Pictures for “Four Girls in Town,” which she …

Photo Barry Jenkins, an Oscar-winning writer and director, is working on a film adaptation of Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Credit Jordan Strauss/Invision, via Jordan Strauss, via Invision, via Associated Press The writer and director Barry Jenkins, whose film “Moonlight” won the Academy Award for best picture this year, …

“The Late Show” starts with two blazing hours of a Ballard work shift. She begins by answering an elderly woman’s complaint about credit card fraud. Then she learns of a cross-dresser who’s been savagely attacked. As usual, Connelly relies on his inside-baseball knowledge about police attitudes. “Drag queens, cross-dressers and …

After the difficult rehearsal on Friday, he said, the dancers made a supreme effort to bring the piece together on Saturday, but he felt they needed more time and decided to cancel the opening. “There will be reputational damage for canceling, but for us the quality of the production was …

Photo Larry David in an HBO teaser for Season 9 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Credit HBO On Monday, HBO announced some pretty, pretty good news for fans of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — an Oct. 1 premiere date for Season 9. It will be the first episode of the series, in …

Photo From left, Frank Gehry, Amanda Levete and Renzo Piano, some of the architects who made the shortlist to design London’s new Center for Music. Credit From left: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images; Patricia de Melo Moreira/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Pedro Puente Hoyos/European Pressphoto Agency Amanda Levete, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, …

Photo James Levine, at Carnegie Hall in 2015. Mr. Levine, the Met’s music director emeritus, led a “Tosca” in his first performance with the company — on June 5, 1971. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Its star soprano and tenor dropped out. Now the Metropolitan Opera’s hotly …

Before 1750 is the focus this week, as Mr. Costanzo stars in a tech-savvy reboot of Handel’s “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo” at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from Wednesday through July 20. But he has also pushed beyond the old-music limitations of traditional countertenors, performing new works written for him …