Culture Art and entertainment commentary plus interviews, book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, comedy, and visual art. Subscribe to podcasts and follow trends in music, painting, art, architecture, photography, and design.
Culture
Friday
Alan Cheuse was our guide to the best and worst of the written word for more than 30 years. Josh Cheuse hide caption
Alan Cheuse. Josh Cheuse hide caption
An infantryman eats food rations from cans during the Vietnam War. Corbis hide caption
A spry 52 when the film was shot, Tom Cruise — still his own stuntman — careens a motorcycle, sans helmet, around a winding Moroccan highway at suicide-miles-per-hour. Bo Bridges/Paramount Pictures hide caption
Skyler Gisondo (from left), Steele Stebbins, Christina Applegate and Ed Helms star as the next generation of Griswolds in Vacation. Hopper Stone/Warner Brothers Pictures hide caption
In 1968, ABC paired two pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum — William F. Buckley Jr. (left) and Gore Vidal — for a cut-throat intellectual faceoff. The documentary Best of Enemies explores this media milestone. ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images/Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Jesse Eisenberg (left) plays journalist David Lipsky and Jason Segel plays David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour. A24 Films hide caption
After Debra Jarvis went through cancer treatment, she didn't want to be labeled only as a cancer survivor. Robert Benson/Robert Benson/TED hide caption
Jason Segel plays writer David Foster Wallace in the new film The End of the Tour. A24 Films hide caption
'End Of The Tour': An Unauthorized 'Anti-Biopic' Of David Foster Wallace
Newspaper clippings of young Donnie Dunagan from the early '40s. Courtesy of Donnie and Dana Dunagan. hide caption
Thursday
