Thomas Coex | AFP | Getty Images The sun sets over Jerusalem’s Old City on July 8, 2017, as seen from the Mount of Olives. Three attackers opened fire near Jerusalem’s holiest site on Friday, wounding three Israelis, two of them critically, before they were killed, Israeli police said. Army …

Photo Gemma Kaneko, left, and Brittany K. Allen in “True Right” at the New Ohio Theater. Credit Lauryn McCarter The president-turned-painter George W. Bush is at his easel when his brother Jeb walks in. George is working on a dual portrait — of himself with their father, the first President …

We, on the other hand, are taken directly into the tortured prince’s confidence. And when Mr. Isaac confides, we listen. Best known for his work in film (“Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”), he showed a vernacular ease with Elizabethan speech when he appeared as Romeo (to Lauren …

TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA / AFP / Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next to a map of the original Trans-Pacific Partnership participating countries. However, internal divisions are a key obstacle as some participants look to rework existing provisions in light of Washington’s absence. “On the one hand, you have Japan, …

“Her poems,” Professor Carlson wrote, “dig deep into the Russian tradition and raise the powerful themes that have always tortured Russian poets: memory, history, fate, love, poetry, faith and freedom.” Ms. Ratushinskaya (pronounced ra-TOO-shin-SKY-yuh) wrote without rancor. “If you allow hatred to take root, it will flourish and spread,” she …

But Mr. Lynch’s perspective penetrates further into the smoke and fire of the blast, locating, it seems, the origins of the evil that the central characters of “Twin Peaks” are in constant battle with. This extraordinary sequence, using both a stationary camera and one that tracks forward with grim relentlessness, …

Natalie Behring | Bloomberg | Getty Images A view of China’s nuclear fusion device in the Hefei Institute of Physical Science in Anhui, China, in 2007. Earlier this month, scientists on the project kept extremely hot plasma at a temperature three times that of the sun’s core for more than …

Photo Members of Doug Varone’s company, Doug Varone and Dancers, at BAM Harvey Theater this spring. Mr. Varone is the latest choreographer chosen for the program Taylor Company Commissions. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Doug Varone, the longtime choreographer and artistic director of the troupe Doug Varone …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robert Kaplan, president of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan on Thursday advocated a go-slow approach to further U.S. interest-rate hikes, saying he wants to see more evidence that inflation is heading back up to …

Photo Julie Victor in the French musical comedy “Footnotes.” Credit Monument Releasing A Marxist musical comedy might not be your first choice of weekend entertainment, but be assured that “Footnotes” won’t batter your brain with heavyweight labor theory. Rather, this feather-light French confection, written and directed by Paul Calori and …