Quebec’s newest breakout band wears paper-mâché masks with giant phallic noses and polka-dot-speckled costumes covering their ...

The blues didn’t arrive from the US as something alien. It arrived as something curiously familiar. See how bands across Scandinavia have made the sound their own.

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules.

In 2006, Ryan Gosling, then in his twenties, starred in a tough-minded, low-budget drama called “Half Nelson,” in which he played a middle-school teacher hobbled by a crack addiction. Years later, the ...

In 1996, Phish’s Trey Anastasio formed a free-form jazz ensemble that came and went without much fanfare. 30 years later, their only album opens a door to a world of improvisational music that goes ...

From Dungeon Crawler Carl to Crime and Punishment, these picks by The National's staff prove spoken word can be more immersive than text ...

In the landscape of modern Indian poetry, few works cut as deeply as Kedarnath Singh’s “Hindi in JNU.” The poem, written by the Jnanpith Award-winning poet who passed away in 2018, is not merely a ...

I read the article on March 7 about a cashier at Walmart taking money from a cash register drawer. Many years ago, I was a cashier at a grocery store. Every time we ran a cash register, we had to ...

If you guessed Jack Nicholson, “On the Waterfront” and Fort Lee, you probably recognize that, given enough cinematic research, any of us can make sound, educated guesses. For instance, we New ...

Tibetan National Uprising Day, observed annually on March 10, honors the 1959 Lhasa Uprising against Chinese rule. The uprising, sparked by fears for the Dalai Lama’s safety, escalated into a ...

Few characters in film history will be remembered for their sounds as opposed to words, like Chewbacca from the Star Wars saga. His iconic growls, moans, and expressive vocalizations created a ...

Imagine a problem so fiendishly hard that one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century publicly mused that even alien civilisations ...