Magazine – Life & Arts

Jon Hamm in "American Hostage." (Steven Ackerman/MGM+/Sony Pictures Television)

‘American Hostage,’ with Jon Hamm, has resonance in the present

Graham Hillard · October 30, 2026 5:30 am

Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen in "Clayface." (Taghizadeh/Warner Bros. Pictures)

‘Clayface’ is a gross, creepy indictment of Hollywood culture

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If you love the NFL, read Peter King’s ‘The Game’

A worker adjusts the paitning "Nighthawks" by famous U.S. artist Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper, flaws and all, sketched in new biography

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‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson offers a new essay collection

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: Bad history, worse film

Nicholas M. Gallagher December 1, 2023 4:40 am

The bad idea about language that research keeps falsifying

Micah Mattix December 1, 2023 4:05 am

Speaking the language of the locals

Rob Long December 1, 2023 3:33 am

In The Curse, Nathan Fielder pulls his tricks on himself

J. Oliver Conroy December 1, 2023 3:05 am

Singer Barbra Streisand performs during her concert in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Barbra Streisand’s juicy gossip about everyone, everything, and herself

Alexander Larman November 17, 2023 9:51 am

AI am the Walrus

Dominic Green November 17, 2023 8:10 am

The trick to avoiding fighting over politics

Rob Long November 17, 2023 7:58 am

If only The Killer were silent

Peter Tonguette November 17, 2023 7:00 am

The subtlety of A Murder at the End of the World

Graham Hillard November 17, 2023 6:33 am

Jason Stanley and the woke theory of language

Oliver Traldi November 17, 2023 4:46 am

No, really. Thank you for your service

Trent Reedy November 17, 2023 4:25 am

The optimistic conservative’s guide to the future

James B. Meigs November 17, 2023 3:20 am