Part of the mission of the costume designer Jacqueline Durran, who has been nominated for an Academy Award for “Little Women,” is to make vintage clothes look covetable to the modern viewer.About half ...

Diana Ejaita’s second cover for the magazine arrives on the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, and its attention to pattern and texture echoes the artist’s work as a textile designer. Ejaita, who wa ...

Jazz musicians have always placed a premium on “saying something.” Technique, training, and theory will only get you so far, and may even lead you in the wrong direction; what matters is the ability t ...

In its focus on the racial bias of the justice system, “Just Mercy,” which stars Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan, is a drama of immense power. And yet it remains peculiarly impersonal.“Just Mercy” is ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel lived out an advance trajectory of a career in letters centered on personal charisma and the strong feelings that people tend to have about young women.About a decade ago, when the w ...

The documentary “Advocate,” from the directors Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche, profiles the Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel and her defense of Palestinians under occupation.The though ...