How the New Yorker’s poetry editor became our foremost chronicler of contemporary hokum

The four recently released singles from the upcoming album “Dirty Computer” indicate Janelle Monáe’s maturation as an artist

In a new performance piece, the musician and performer channels the contradictions of the South Asian psyche

How three working-class lads from Edinburgh with nothing to lose made one of the year’s most exciting hip-hop albums

Musings from the global icon and re-minted Lancôme spokesperson about raising Americans, fortitude, and chickens

"It's a book you think you've read before, or a book you think you'll be bored by," says the author. "But it's neither.”

The excellent sixth volume of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series shows we haven't had too much of the legendary jazz musician

“On this one I finally got to make the record I wanted to make”

Our critics recommend the documentaries, genre pieces, and literary studies to seek out at the sprawling-as-usual fest

A feast at the Met looks at the founder of the Hudson River School, and the visionaries who inspired him.