By Dwight Garner Randy Newman was a nepo baby, a sprig of musical royalty. Three of his uncles were Hollywood film composers. One...

By Hank Sanders We’re in the Spooky Season. Halloween costume shops have taken over vacant buildings; “Monster Mash” is on our playlists;...

By Jon Caramanica It was a little after 9 p.m. Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, and Stevie Wonder was finally getting loose. He’d...

By Erik Piepenburg Out this week, a period possession movie starring Sarah Paulson, a chef-driven supernatural thriller starring Ariana...

By Alex Marshall Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for “The Vegetarian,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday —...

By Ben Kenigsberg “The Menendez Brothers” doesn’t so much relitigate the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez as reframe it. In 1996, the...

By Brian Seibert Rippling scales of Spanish guitar, the howls of a raspy-voiced singer, thunderous clapping and stamping — the sounds...

By Glenn Rifkin Cissy Houston, a Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel star who helped shepherd her daughter Whitney Houston to...