Jim Parsons can’t catch a break. He’s made it to New York City, where he’s speaking in Gramercy Park, a small urban oasis near his apartment, and there’s not a cloud in the sky. (He...

A true story of trauma, brought to life in fiction

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — or, if you prefer, of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — was a collision between the United Kingdom and the United States, a geopolitical tango...

"This is all you need to know. Anything else will make you sick. Crazy." So says Michael Shannon, playing a captain of a brigade of "firemen" in HBO's new film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. He...

The Patrick Melrose novels, by the British writer Edward St. Aubyn, depict the life of a dissolute man as he goes from squandering his promise to having squandered it. Patrick is born into high social...

Sitting in the open kitchen of her New York City apartment, the first-time political candidate snacks on pistachios and talks campaign-finance reform. "In New York, you can't call out Wall Street, right?" says Cynthia Nixon,...