The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, held at Expo Tel Aviv, seemed intent on presenting Israel as miraculously untouched by political tensions.On Saturday night, after much heated preparation and two sem ...

Despite its connotations of denture-friendly fare and penny-pinching, early dinner is the most decadent meal there is.I recently read that Terry Gross thinks the best icebreaker is “Tell me about your ...

“Untitled (Shell hand),” 1934.In 1936, at the summit of her celebrity as a photographic artist, Dora Maar showed her picture “Portrait of Ubu” in the International Surrealist Exhibition, at the New Bu ...

On May 6—just two days short of V-E Day, as he surely would have noted—we lost our nation’s greatest living historian of modern Europe. The Hungarian-born John Lukacs had for some time suffered from c ...

“Booksmart” is centered on a pair of high-achieving high-school seniors, played by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, who believe themselves to be the only serious students in their class.Some films ...

Tom grew absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.My brother Tom’s slide into homelessnes ...