Photo Trevor Noah was thrown off by the way Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, announced he was deleting his old tweets. Credit Comedy Central Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do …

Adam Berry | Bloomberg | Getty Images A cyclist passes graffiti of the euro sign shaped into the Superman logo near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. German business confidence unexpectedly rose in July, a survey showed on Tuesday, hitting the third record high in as many months as Europe’s …

“I felt I had done enough Wagner,” Mr. Kosky said in a recent interview in his office here, “and I’d always found it exhausting to work on Wagner. It unnerves me too much.” “Meistersinger,” a medieval fantasy about a guild of singing masters that is arguably its composer’s most nationalistic …

Photo An Iberian lynx at the Madrid Zoo in “Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark,” on PBS. Credit Joel Sartore Photography Inc. Growl for the camera: The photographer Joel Sartore immortalizes more than 6,000 threatened species. And vent your rage alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her punching bag of a comedy. …

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco, California. Japanese tech titan SoftBank has approached Uber about taking a multi-billion dollar stake in the ride-sharing company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. SoftBank has already invested in three ride-sharing companies in …

The sessions quickly became a way station for New Orleans’s modern-day all-stars: the vocalist and percussionist Cyril Neville, the trumpeter Nicholas Payton, the saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. and the trombonist Troy Andrews, known as Trombone Shorty, all stopped by for cameos. Continue reading the main story The result was “With …

But while readers may pick up on this novel’s many allusions and borrowings (for instance, its nods to Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” and Lauren Groff’s “Fates and Furies,” in creating a stereoscopic portrait of a marriage), “Stay With Me” feels entirely fresh, thanks to its author’s ability to map tangled …

Between last week’s performances of “The Tempest” and “Hamlet,” I had tea with a septuagenarian British actor who played Hamlet in his youth (and later appeared in other productions in other roles). He remarked that now that he was too old for Hamlet, he finally understood how it should be …

Photo Daniel Craig as James Bond in a scene from the 2015 film “Spectre.” He will return as Bond in 2019. Credit Jonathan Olley/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, via Associated Press Sound the trumpets: Daniel Craig will play James Bond in at least one more film, which will be released in …

Adam Berry | AFP | Getty Images Patrick Kramer of the company Digiwell shows his microchip implant to a visitor at a press preview of the Wear-it festival in Berlin on June 8, 2017. The chip, which costs $300 per implant, is inserted with a needle between the thumb and …