Arts & Culture

Power sees much to admire in ‘Diplomat’ — except that deodorant thing

Former ambassador sits down with star, showrunner to separate fact, fiction in hit series about foreign service officers

‘They cast no reflection, yet they are a mirror’

Monsters take many forms in our Halloween book recommendations — from vampires to demonic cats to ancient sea reptiles

Hannah and the Janes

New A.R.T. rock opera looks backward to era before Roe v. Wade, finds resonance with today’s post-Roe world

What Paul Farmer and Joan Kleinman taught Arthur Kleinman about wisdom

Physician and anthropologist says it all comes down caregiving in new collection written with colleagues, rooted in their course ‘Quests for Wisdom’

Part of the Excerpts series

Selective nostalgia

Half a century after curator’s road trip collecting photos of American life, a look at what’s inside — and outside — the frames

Making music is magic. Understanding it is even better.

Why Sophia Zervas traded a career in the arts for academia