Arts

The "we" in We Have Always Lived in the Castle refers to Merrricat (Taissa Farmiga) and Constance (Alexandra Daddario). Charles (Sebastian Stan) is the new guy.

Arts

'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' — And It Feels Like It

5:00pm May 16, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Shirley Jackson's novel is "a Gothic psychodrama that eats itself from the inside." But this adaptation proves too low-key and repetitive to build suspense and succeeds only in testing patience.

Anthony (Tom Burke) and Julie (Honor Swinton Burne) navigate a toxic romance in Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir.

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A Passionate Romance, Remembered Dispassionately: 'The Souvenir'

5:00pm May 16, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

Joanna Hogg's tale of a London film student who falls for a manipulative older man is at war with itself: Hogg's "confessional memoir draws you in, while her clinical style pushes you away."

In Photograph, a street photographer (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) tries to get Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose as his fiancee.

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'Photograph' Captures Romance Blossoming Across Mumbai's Class Divide

5:00pm May 16, 2019

by Ella Taylor

The writer/director of 2013's crowd-pleasing romance The Lunchbox returns with another heartwarming tale of unlikely love the crowded streets of Mumbai.

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Jeff Koons 'Rabbit' Sets Record For Most Expensive Work By Living Artist

4:33pm May 16, 2019

by Neda Ulaby

A 3-foot-tall silver bunny, created by Jeff Koons in 1986, sold at an auction for $91 million Wednesday night at Christie's in New York City, making Koons the world's most expensive living artist.

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In Fleabag, the show's creator and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as a young Londoner struggling to make sense of sex, family and life itself.

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'Fleabag' Returns For A Raunchy 2nd Season — And Quits While It's Ahead

3:48pm May 16, 2019

by John Powers

Phoebe Waller-Bridge pulls off the rare feat of taking a hugely successful show and making it much better. In Season 2, her character falls for a foul-mouthed Catholic priest.

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Rabbit by Jeff Koons was sold for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York on Wednesday night. It set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist to be sold at auction.

Jeff Koons' 'Rabbit' Fetches $91 Million, Auction Record For Work By A Living Artist

2:19pm May 16, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of the U.S. Treasury secretary, bought the sculpture for a client. Some art collectors consider the silver bunny to be "the holy grail of Koons works."

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'Middlegame' Makes Mathematical Magic

7:00am May 16, 2019

by Jason Sheehan

Seanan McGuire's new standalone novel stars twins: Roger is good at words and Dodger is good at math — and both of them find themselves caught up in a shadowy alchemical plan for world domination.

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New 'Tell Them, I Am' Podcast Explores Lives Of Muslims Through Small Defining Moments

9:06pm May 15, 2019

This Ramadan, Misha Euceph, host of Tell Them, I Am podcast, focuses on small defining moments and characteristics that make 22 different Muslims who they are.

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The characters in The Big Bang Theory were "outliers" who formed a "surrogate family," says show co-creator Chuck Lorre. Above, Simon Helberg, left, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons and Kunal Nayyar.

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After 12 Seasons, 'Big Bang' Writers Bid Farewell To Their 'Surrogate Family'

4:35pm May 15, 2019

by Mandalit del Barco

It's a bittersweet ending for the team of writers and creators behind the hit CBS show. Writer Dave Goetsch says he simply cannot bring himself to turn off his daily Google alert for physics news.

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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, by Adam Gopnik

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'A Thousand Small Sanities' Is A Lesson In Understanding Liberalism

2:47pm May 15, 2019

by Gabino Iglesias

By showing the impact it's had in the past, Adam Gopnik presents liberalism not only as a moral adventure but also as a necessity in an age of resurging autocracy and rampant bigotry.