Arts & Life

Anne Rivers Siddons, whose popular novels, set largely in the South, took female characters on emotional journeys that touched on the region’s racial and social attitudes, died on Wednesday at her home in Charleston, S.C. She was 83. Her stepson David Siddons said the cause was lung cancer. Ms. Siddons …

BAYEUX, France (Reuters) – The French town of Bayeux has been home for nearly a millennium to a tapestry depicting a bloody battle for power. Now it has another. An exhibition featuring a tapestry illustrating the events of hit HBO TV show “Game of Thrones” opened in Bayeux, Normandy, on …

YALE NEEDS WOMEN How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League GiantBy Anne Gardiner Perkins As a female graduate of Yale, I’d always assumed that the story of women’s admission to the college in 1969 was one of triumph — a historic transformation commemorated by …

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Marc Chagall, the 20th century French-Russian artist who delighted fans with his vividly coloured, whimsical works, did many of his paintings using the same nine pigments – and hardly ever used black, researchers said on Friday. Conservator Madeleine Bisschoff speaks about a study on a collection of …

Richard Conrad, a tenor who was plucked from obscurity by the acclaimed soprano Joan Sutherland to take part in a landmark 1963 recording, and who later overcame a throat injury suffered in an assault and found a successful third act producing lesser-known operas, died on Aug. 26 at his home …

Post Malone is a melodically gifted misanthrope with a voice that always sounds like it’s running away. If Drake has been the architect of the last decade’s pop evolution, Post Malone has been its savviest adopter, making ethereal post-rap pop songs that sound inevitable, and also evanescent. “Hollywood’s Bleeding,” the …

Kiran Nagarkar, an Indian writer whose celebrated novels and plays addressed subjects like 16th-century Rajasthani royalty, the life of the working poor in Mumbai and religious fundamentalism, died on Sept. 5 in a hospital in Mumbai. He was 77. His longtime partner, Tulsi Vatsal, said the cause was a cerebral …

CAIRO (Reuters) – Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an Ottoman-era mansion being used as a slaughterhouse and butcher’s shop in Cairo’s historic Islamic district. FILE PHOTO: General view of buildings and historic mosques in an old neighbourhood of Cairo, Egypt September …

DUCKS, NEWBURYPORTBy Lucy Ellmann For most of its 1,000 pages, Lucy Ellmann’s brilliantly ambitious seventh novel follows the unspooling consciousness of an Ohio housewife circa 2017, and does so almost entirely in one long, lyrical, constantly surprising sentence. Our narrator is an educated, liberal mother of four, obsessed with the …

TALKING TO STRANGERSWhat We Should Know About the People We Don’t KnowBy Malcolm Gladwell Perhaps one shouldn’t always feel bad about getting someone utterly wrong. Sometimes one is bested by a master. In November 2004, I went to interview Bernard Madoff for The Economist and was won over. I told …