Arts & Culture

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

Why our old narratives about race and culture “just don’t fit anymore.”

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

A profile of the spy writer.

“J.Crew employees reveal themselves by the nakedness of their ankles. It’s as if the company’s uniform, ambiently dictated by Lyons, is enforced only from the knees down.”

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

A profile of the Van Halen frontman.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.