Paul Marantz, a prominent architectural lighting designer who illuminated disco floors and skylines, libraries and chic hotels, train stations and concert halls, museums and embassies, died on May 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. The cause of death was complications of a stroke, his wife, Jane Marantz, …
Fiction | Nonfiction We’re more than a third of the way through 2025 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the following. We suspect that some (though certainly not all) …
John Mulaney describes his weekly Netflix talk show as “a throwback in some ways.” Indeed, it seems to draw inspiration from numerous 20th-century late-night hosts, from Dick Cavett to David Letterman to Conan O’Brien. “It’s almost like the way you might remember a bunch of shows from the past, but …
Two years ago, when the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris approached David Hockney about staging a blockbuster retrospective of his work, he assumed he would not be around to see it open. “Even last year, I thought I wouldn’t be here,” Hockney, now 87 and wheelchair-bound, said in a recent …
by David Szalay Szalay’s new novel traces the life of a young man in Hungary who eventually makes his way to England, following him from troubled youth to immigrant success to tragic fall. Each chapter provides glimpses of the major stages of adulthood — first love, marriage, parenthood — interwoven …
‘Death of a Unicorn’ On the drive to his boss’s mansion, Elliot (Paul Rudd) hits and nearly kills a unicorn, leading to madcap misadventures in this horror-comedy directed by Alex Scharfman. From our review: There’s no real spoiling “Death of a Unicorn,” an unabashedly nonsensical movie that doesn’t take anything …
On an evening in mid-January, there were bouquets piled outside of Linda Lavin’s trailer on the Disney lot in Burbank, Calif. Nearby, on a soundstage, a black ribbon was wrapped around her caricature. Lavin had died on Dec. 29, at age 87. Now the creators and cast of “Mid-Century Modern,” …
Fred Eversley, a sculptor who used a technique dating back to Isaac Newton to make otherworldly discs of tinted resin, died on March 14 in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Maria Larsson, who said that he died after a brief illness. …
It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its Oscar-nominated lead man, Paul Mescal, has people clamoring for tickets to BAM’s production this month. The excitement recalls a period when the performing arts …
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Millions of readers know David Leonhardt as — until recently — the voice of The Morning, The New York Times’s flagship newsletter that he founded in 2020. But his byline …