Arts & Life

“Where do you think thoughts come from?” she asked in a conversational prelude to the show. “Do you think they come from the body?” Continue reading the main story If presented with that question herself, Ms. Oberfelder would probably answer yes, as would most anyone who has devoted a lifetime …

His new book is another pivot. “Golden Hill” is his first novel, and not a typical first novel (mumbled quasi-memoir) but an ebullient, freewheeling historical fiction set in 18th-century New York City three decades before the Revolutionary War. Continue reading the main story I am not a terrific fan of …

Photo Stephen Colbert said a recent CNN article was the network’s “worst mistake since their short-lived spinoff, ‘Wolf Blitzer’s Rockin’ Situation Garage.’” 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 think of …

But how to communicate that visceral sense of sweat and thrum and poetry via the cool medium of television? Any new take on Shakespeare’s life and work, in whatever medium, has to decide whether to hang on to the original story and language or whether to modernize them. Continue reading …

Photo The computer-generated Okja, left, and An Seo Hyun in “Okja.” Credit Netflix Okja is a most remarkable pig. As big as a medium-sized elephant, with a snout that looks more canine than porcine, she is slobbery and sometimes flatulent, but also loyal, gentle and brave. Okja is devoted, above …

Photo Thaneth Warakulnukroh and Bong the elephant in “Pop Aye,” directed by Kirsten Tan. Credit Kino Lorber There’s a wonderful moment in “Pop Aye,” when an elephant gives the camera — and you — the stink eye. Then again, maybe the elephant, called Pop Aye and played by a majestic …

Photo An Seo Hyun, left, and her pet in “Okja.” Credit Netflix A South Korean girl embarks on an odyssey to save her massive pet pig in “Okja.” Liza finds that telling the truth isn’t as easy as she had hoped in the season premiere of “Younger.” And “Broadchurch” returns …

Photo An artistic rendering of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s design for a new museum inside the Bourse de Commerce building in Paris. Credit Artefactory Lab; Tadao Ando Architect & Associates; NeM/Niney & Marca Architectes; Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier; Courtesy Collection Pinault – Paris PARIS — François Pinault’s decades-long battle to …

Photo Geri Allen in 2012. She gained prominence in the 1980s. Credit Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Geri Allen, an influential pianist and educator whose dense but agile playing reconciled far-flung elements of the jazz tradition, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 60. The cause …

Needless to say, there are spoilers ahead, so any readers who don’t want to know the identity of A.D., the latest “A,” — or why the show’s sex scenes became more revealing, or which plot points provoked the angriest viewer reactions — should turn back now. These are edited excerpts …