In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do.

D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, thrillingly illuminates three art forms.

The online startup sends meal kits and menu items from beloved restaurants nationwide, from Raoul’s decadent burger au poivre to Veselka’s borscht and pierogi.

Dana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and the imprint’s soon-to-be publisher, discusses the different types of diversity she hopes to foster in her new role.

In a new book, “People of the Mud,� the photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez creates a choreography of bodies at work and at play.

Promotes (but doesn’t necessarily endorse!) a post, for short: three letters.

Chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms that fry up like their namesake, snappy sea beans that need no extra salt, sassafras syrup, and other edible offerings from the wilds outside the city limits.

The pandemic and the protests inspire works of lamentation and rage.

It wasn’t too hard for the British actor to get into character for the new movie “Sometimes Always Never,� in which he plays a music-loving Merseyside tailor.

“She asked if she was under arrest. No, what made her think that? They were just going to have a little chat. The threat hidden in that twee bloodless phrase.�