Ethan Miller | Getty Images O.J. Simpson looks over at his lawyer Tom Pitaro during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former football star and convicted felon O.J. Simpson will command the world’s attention once again Thursday when he pleads …

EMMANUEL DUNAND | AFP | Getty Images Michel Barnier, chief negotiator for the preparation and conduct of the negotiations with the UK under Article 50 of the Treaty on EU gives a press conference at the European Commission on December 6, 2016. Barnier told the British negotiator, David Davis, “very …

Duke believes in the primacy of visual culture, and most right-wing figures, he says, don’t take enough care to make themselves look good. Newt Gingrich, he tells me, is “disheveled”; Steve Bannon is a “schlub”; Trump’s hair is “problematic.” At the same time, he thinks left-leaning media outlets — which …

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. Moscow and Washington are in talks to create a joint cyber security working group, RIA …

“The Taming of the Shrew” made far fewer waves, but it, too, aimed for modern dramaturgy. To sidestep the problematic gender dynamics of Shakespeare’s original plot, Mr. Maillot made Katharina, the Shrew, and Petruchio equals — equally rebellious, and equally unsuited to their milieu. “Everything was unusual, from the very …

Photo Stephen Colbert said President Trump’s meeting secretly with Vladimir Putin was comparable to O.J. Simpson’s getting parole and immediately going “glove shopping.” 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 …

It was published only after the critic Edmund Wilson completed a version based on notes left behind. The best-known adaptation, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Robert De Niro, was a disaster in 1976. “So enervated that it’s like a vampire movie after the vampires have left,” the critic Pauline …

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump meets with Senate Republicans about healthcare in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 27, 2017. The Trump administration has withdrawn or delayed 860 proposed regulations in its first five months, the beginnings of a regulatory overhaul meant to …

Etienne Laurent | Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron walks through the Galerie des Bustes (Busts Gallery) to access the Versailles Palace’s hemicycle for a special congress gathering both houses of parliament (National Assembly and Senate), near Paris, France, July 3, 2017. France’s brand new President Emmanuel Macron needs to move …

Photo Lana Del Rey, in 2014. Credit Kurt Iswarienko for The New York Times Time is weighing on Lana Del Rey on her fourth major-label studio album, “Lust for Life.” At 32, she’s thinking not only about the troubled romances that fill most of her songs, but also about a …