The sportswriter Sam Smith reveals his problems with “The Last Dance,” and discusses whether a book like his 1992 best-seller on Michael Jordan could be written today.

The “Bill & Ted” star turned documentarian, himself a former child actor, examines the psychological consequences of early fame in an HBO film.

A quarter century after an atrocity in Europe, the United States is now the international calamity.

Seven months after the death of the Black writer, Professor James P. Shenton acknowledged at a memorial, “For a while, there lived a poet down the street from Columbia, and Columbia never took the time to find out what he was about.”

Pauli Murray was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her?

Indiana city nicknamed Middletown, U.S.A.: six letters.

The outdoor exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park includes Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic ziggurat “Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House,” performances by indigenous American artists, and more.

The writer had a dazzling intelligence and was once the best-read woman in America, but a public hungry for transgressive heroines has failed to embrace her.

Borjas, who died in March, of complications from COVID-19, left behind a community of transgender women and countless L.G.B.T.-rights activists who looked to her for guidance, inspiration, and love.

“The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”