They did not share our contemporary understandings of the natural or our idea of ‘laws of nature’ that we imagine underpins that naturalism. There is only one world, the natural world, exhibiting ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by ...

An equestrian portrait of Isabel of Bourbon by Diego Velázquez has undergone a major restoration at the Prado Museum.

In one of the most exciting and dramatic awards seasons ever, the field is wide open in several fields. Here are the BBC film ...

An unpredictable, volatile presence onscreen, the actor leaves behind major performances in five different decades. We ...

The actor discusses playing twins in Osgood Perkins’s horror film, finding humor in dark situations and why that monkey is so ...

The 'American Honey', 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Fish Tank' writer/director’s filmography can be summed up in one beautiful line from her latest movie: "no one's no one". That piece of dialogue was ...

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

William Friedkin's The French Connection stars Gene Hackman, and paved the way for some of the late actor's best performances ...

Justin Chang on long shots. Plus: a new kind of celebrity interview; a cinematographer’s risky directorial début; and have we ...

The National’s staging of this revelatory work from the pioneering but overlooked dramatist Michael Abbensetts reclaims him ...