In bringing “Hamilton” to Puerto Rico, Lin-Manuel Miranda called international attention to the island’s progress and also to its daunting obstacles.Last Friday evening, as spectators streamed into th ...

Dawn Darcy, played by Regina Hall, functions as the conscience of the show, groaning at the tasteless jokes before the audience can and articulating objections to the nonsensicality of the plot.I’m pe ...

“James Baldwin, Harlem, New York,” c. 1945.The New Yorker’s theatre critic, Hilton Als, is also an occasional curator of deeply personal art exhibitions, including, last year, a pair of shows devoted ...

Gillette, the 118-year-old shaving company, has some mud on its face. (Or maybe that’s shaving cream.) The company just released a controversial commercial as part of a new campaign urging customers t ...

“Maria, New York City,” 1959.Lee Friedlander once slyly assessed his promiscuous eye by saying, “I tend to photograph the things that get in front of my camera.” For Friedlander, this was in part a ki ...

Who is the top conservative novelist today? One name that comes to mind is Michel Houellebecq, recently included by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the syllabus for his Yale University class ...