A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

We got a short trailer with no real gameplay at the latest Nintendo Direct. For the uninitiated, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was the very first 3D Zelda. It launched for the N64 all the way ...

In January, 1923, Lee Strasberg went to Al Jolson’s 59th Street Theatre to see “Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich,” a nineteenth-century Russian play about sixteenth-century Russian politics, performed, in ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Dive in→ It turns out that Gears of War: E-Day is coming ...

The three-part miniseries The Witness is available to stream on Netflix now. Netflix’s new true crime miniseries The Witness retells the real-life murder of Rachel Nickell in London in 1992, which was ...

“Scary Movie” will contend with another scary movie, A24’s breakout horror hit “Backrooms,” for No. 1 at the domestic box office. Paramount and Miramax’s R-rated “Scary Movie” is aiming for $45 ...

Teens and tweens hoping to find out if Odysseus makes it home to Ithaca are going to need to bring a parent or adult guardian to the multiplex. “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan‘s sprawling adaptation ...

A few days after voting officially ended, Chino Valley Unified School Board President Sonja Shaw still maintained a sizable lead for California’s top school official. And California Department of ...

Great news for Gen-Xers who want to relive their childhood this weekend: The 2026 Masters of the Universe movie opens in theaters tomorrow. He-Man is back, and this time, Skeletor doesn’t have a ...

Yep, it's real folks. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is getting the full remake treatment on Switch 2, and it's launching this year. Nintendo didn't show too much in the debut trailer, but we ...

Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world is changing in big ways every day. State of the World from NPR takes you where the news is happening ...