The new Netflix series “Turn Up Charlie,” starring Idris Elba, is a kind of TV-comedy mosaic: chunks and shards of sitcom commonplaces are spackled together by moments of sincerity.With breezy pop ton ...

Just as it is impossible for me to articulate with any certainty the moment I entered adulthood or began to believe that human life on Earth would not last past the twenty-second century, I cannot tel ...

Dick Dale’s work was directly and mightily informed by the Arabic music that he listened to as a child.Like a lot of people in my generation, I heard Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” for the first time in the o ...

It’s generally acknowledged that we’re living in a golden age of television. We have been at least since The Sopranos first aired in 1999, with the trend having been kept alive long past the normal li ...

The poems of Merwin’s mature career seemed to have been delivered unto him, then transcribed by lightning flash.Now we know the date. The anniversary of W. S. Merwin’s death was, all along, March 15th ...

Between the two of them, the siblings Masha and Keith Gessen have written more than a dozen books and more than a thousand articles. Both live in New York. Both combine teaching and writing, often for ...