The skyline of Washington, D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and National Mall, as seen on June 15, 2014.Saul Loeb | AFP via Getty Images Arbiters of good taste often disagree. That is certainly true of architecture. Late Wednesday, President Biden revoked a controversial executive order that ...

Deborah Willis, I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35Deborah Willis | Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia She was 22. One of three women in a ...

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen DoucleffAvid Reader Press There are many parenting books out there. But NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff says all the parenting books that she read after becoming a mom left a lot ...

The cast and crew of Minari attends the 2020 Sundance Film Festival film premeire at Library Center Theater on Jan. 26, 2020 in Park City, Utah. Chung is second from the right.Cindy Ord | Getty Images Lee Isaac Chung's new film Minari takes its name from a leafy, edible plant ...

Penguin Random House I'm obsessed with tales of obsession. Chances are, you are too, judging by the unflagging popularity of true crime stories presented in podcasts, documentaries, movies and books. What sets Ellen McGarrahan's just-published true crime book, Two Truths and a Lie, above so many others I've read is ...

Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there."Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien is best known for ...

Amy Sherald, who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama, appeared in the film Black Art: In the Absence of Light.HBO Central to the new documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light is a pivotal art exhibition that debuted in 1976. "Two Centuries of Black American Art" was the ...

Ballantine Books War is hell. But it's also pretty crummy on the homefront — especially if you're a woman with few options (read, a woman) in World War II-era England. But what if you could cook your way to a better life? That's the basic premise of The Kitchen Front, ...

The fact that Ginny (Antonia Gentry) is much more in focus here than Georgia (Brianne Howey) is maybe a metaphor.Netflix To understand the challenge presented by the new Netflix series Ginny & Georgia, it helps to know a little bit about Melrose Place. There was a moment in the fourth ...

Clark Kent has a tense moment with his son Jordan in the CW's new Superman & Lois.Dean Buscher | The CW For comic book fans like me, Superman is the ultimate superhero — able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and stop a nuclear reactor from exploding by ...