Greg Tate, in 2016.Nisha Sondhe | Duke University Press Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson at Duke University Press, his publisher. No further details were provided. Starting in 1987, Tate was a longtime staff ...

A ceremonial cup from Turkey in the shape of a stag's head. Three death masks, likely unearthed from the mountains of Israel, dating back to 6000 or 7000 B.C. An ancient Greek chest for human remains. Those are among the 180 stolen antiquities that former hedge fund manager and philanthropist ...

Mel Brooks (shown here in 1984) calls comedy his "delicious refuge" from the world: "I hide in humor and comedy. I love it."Larry Ellis | Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images As a child in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Mel Brooks assumed he would grow up to work in Manhattan's garment district. That's what ...

Misaki (Tôko Miura) is the personal driver to a grieving actor (Hidetoshi Nishijima) in Drive My Car.Festival de Cannes Don't be scared off by the epic running time of Drive My Car; it may run just shy of three hours, but it flies by like a dream. The director Ryûsuke ...

Meghan Collins Sullivan | NPR It's evident that 2021 has been a bumper year for graphic novels aimed at the high-school set. Among the flood of titles competing for youthful eyeballs, though, a few stand apart this fall for their unorthodox stories, deft artwork and potent themes. Though their settings ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the U.K., poses with his 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature medal after being presented it at the Swedish ambassador's residence in London.Matt Dunham | AP Nobel Prize winners usually attend a royal banquet inside the glittering Stockholm City Hall, where ...

Kieran Culkin says the cursing on Succession has affected his speech: "The F-word just slides out of me."Macall B. Polay | HBO Succession co-star Kieran Culkin has grown up on screen. His first gig (when he was 6) was in a commercial, followed by a small part in the 1990 ...

How does a person's history intersect with that of a community? And what can a communal past teach us about survival, love, and carrying it all forward? Call Us What We Carry: Poems, by Amanda GormanViking In her debut collection Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman, who this year ...

Olga NeuwirthPriska Ketterer | Courtesy of the University of Louisville Olga Neuwirth, a groundbreaking Austrian composer and multimedia artist known for the technical virtuosity and elemental power of her work, is the newest recipient of one of classical music's most prestigious and lucrative honors. On Monday, Neuwirth was announced as ...

The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees: (left to right) opera star Justino Díaz, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler and Motown founder Berry Gordy.Scott Suchman | Kennedy Center This year's Kennedy Center honorees Joni Mitchell, Bette Mider, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels and Justino Díaz were ...