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As Trump Quits UNESCO, China Expands Influence
Washington had been a buffer against China’s efforts to use UNESCO to influence education, historical designations and even artificial intelligence.
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Zelensky Faces Criticism in Ukraine Over Effort to Rein In Corruption Agencies
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill limiting two Ukrainian anticorruption agencies. After street protests and other criticism, he said he would propose a new law restoring their independence.
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Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
More than 100 organizations, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, added to growing calls for aid restrictions to be eased and the war to end.
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Free Shakespeare’s Central Park Home Gets an $85 Million Glow Up
The rickety, beloved Delacorte Theater, built in 1962, leaked and was popular with raccoons. Now it’s a modern facility and still charmingly wild.
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Noah Davis, a Painter Gone Too Soon, Takes a Seat in Posterity
The artist’s first museum tour luxuriates in the spacious and sophisticated folk-modernism he left behind, even as it unevenly canonizes a painter of the millennial era.
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The Fire in Your Eyes: Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)
“The wreckage of my past is haunting me, it just won’t leave me alone,” sang Ozzy on “Road to Nowhere,” the reflective closer on his bestselling 1991 album No More Tears. It’s a standout in a solo career that endeared him to Gen Xers as much as his Black Sabbath albums did for boomers and…
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Fantasia 2025: I Am Frankelda, The Devil’s Bride, Cielo
Folklore and fantasy are nothing new to the Fantasia International Film Festival, but this year’s lineup features quite a few pictures that capture cinema’s ability to grasp the surreal. We’ve got Lithuanian rock operas, Mexico’s first stop-motion feature film, and a child’s fantasy from Bolivia, all of which play with humanity’s capacity for imagination as…
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One of Us: Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970-2025)
The most successful rock stars and child stars are often plagued by a unique problem most of us would betray a close relative to experience: How exactly does one age gracefully after achieving immortality in youth? How do you carry the weight of early success for the rest of your life when the burden seems…
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Book Excerpt: That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas
We’re proud to present an excerpt from That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas, which is now available. Find the synopsis below, followed by the excerpt. That Very Witch explores the cyclical rise and fall of the cinematic witch in American culture and her relationship to feminist movements over time.…
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DVD/Blu-Ray Guide July 2025: “A Minecraft Movie,” “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” “The Legend of Ochi,” More
10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Anchorman““Born on the Fourth of July““Donnie Darko““Happy Gilmore““Jaws““Mad Max: Fury Road““Mission: Impossible““A Star is Born““V For Vendetta““Wanted“ 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY/VOD “All We Imagine as Light“ One of the best films of 2024 has been given the Janus Contemporaries treatment, an interesting development that has sparked a bit of controversy recently.…