Arts & Life

“It was something my friend and fellow Scottish writer John Niven got into doing between us for laughs,” Welsh said in an email. “Tennis commentary is generally pretty dull. Ours is grounded in the compelling perversity that the cuisine, climate and class structure of Scotland can produce a tennis champion …

But it was not until the early 1960s that Mr. Cohen’s personal interest in the captivating Carrollian oeuvre turned professional. He was having tea at the English estate of his friend Roger Lancelyn Green, who had edited Carroll’s diaries, when Mr. Green asked him to edit Carroll’s letters with him. …

Mr. Lauder has conveyed this message to Daniel Brodsky, the Met’s chairman, and to Daniel H. Weiss, who recently ascended to the top job at the Met, becoming chief executive as well as president. “Leonard has assured us he wants this gift to come to the Met,” Mr. Weiss said, …

Ms. Lovelis writes and sings with a degree of frankness that’s uncommon in recent generations of female pop singers. Sexual agency runs throughout this album, on those songs and also “Unholy,” “Like Lovers Do” and “Brand New Moves,” which has flickers of the awkward dance-rock of the early 1980s. On …

It’s among the satisfactions of Begley’s “The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera” that he delivers a subtle accounting of Nadar’s career as a photographer while reminding us of his subject’s many other talents and exploits. He was a gifted caricaturist, for example, and a journalist and editor who …

Speaking in May over lunch at a restaurant here, Ms. Harteros, 44, politely but firmly deflected certain questions about her personal life. “These are private reasons,” she said, “that I didn’t want such big travel, with big distance from home.” Continue reading the main story But interviews with past and …

The executors have made clear they plan to honor Albee’s desires, even when they might be controversial. In May, for example, they refused to allow a tiny Oregon theater to cast a black actor as a blond character in a production of Albee’s most famous play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia …

Photo At the Christian Dior exhibition at the Musée des Art Décoratifs in Paris, some of the designs by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the house’s current artistic director. Credit Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times PARIS — On Monday night, on one of those spectacular Paris summer evenings when the …

“It’s a real tragedy,” said Jason Liebig, who collects candy memorabilia and calls himself a confectionary historian. “I want Willy Wonka-branded candy — it’s such a fun fount of material to draw from, and certainly it’s ingrained in our popular culture. How many candy brands get to be built on …

Despite its projected benefits for Santander as a tourism and culture hub, though, the building has had some ardent local critics who regard it as both a violation of city ordinances and a self-aggrandizing display of banking wealth. Continue reading the main story Emilio Botín, the bank’s former chairman, commissioned …