Emily Bobrow

“In a town that got blindsided by the rock revolution, it was only fitting that Vegas would turn to the original rock ’n’ roller, Elvis Presley, as the agent of its reinvention,” writes Richard Zoglin

Though underwhelming as a survey of the video artist’s oeuvre, the Barnes Foundation’s new exhibition includes works alive with mystery and meaning.

As New York’s incarceration rate falls, the city is casting around for smaller jails to copy

Ocean Vuong’s lyrical debut novel creates an account of lives that are at once overlooked and thoroughly American

Another 12 are considering it. Good

Joanne Ramos’s impressive debut novel is set in a high-end surrogacy outfit

Most primers on parenting have been written by men. We know very little about how women feel about the work and wonders of mothering.

Two studies suggest that one in four people shot dead by the police have psychiatric conditions

On Broadway, her Lear is less a man or a woman than a human undone by human frailty

There were rumors Harper Lee was scribbling away at a true-crime book. But few knew about the case of murder and vengeance that transfixed the author.

His plays ask audiences to confront their own complicity in prejudice

Yiyun Li turns a tragic personal loss into a profoundly intimate work of fiction

The American director usually prefers collaborating with living playwrights. He is willing to make an exception

A new two-part retrospective has opened at the Guggenheim 30 years after the artist’s death

“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”, a previously unpublished piece from Plath’s college days, is full of the themes that would inform her best work