Goings On

In her début novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family’s real-life collaboration during the Second World War.

In a new graphic novel, the petty and tedious appear magical and strangely beautiful.

The author of “Heartland,” a memoir about growing up on a farm in Kansas, talks about the books that have influenced her career-long exploration of the country’s poor.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

At the tiny food stall Ramen by Ra, Rasheeda Purdie combines Japanese technique with the flavors of morning in New York, including noodles topped with bacon, egg, and cheese.

How Southern California became the epicenter of hype diets and twenty-dollar smoothies.

Cafe Kestrel, in Red Hook, offers cooking that is highly idiosyncratic but not confrontational, from applesauce sundaes to Sunday-night curry.

An audacious take on chocolate-chip, a pastelito-style micro-pie, and a cookie-spiked cookie.

A new film dramatizes Trump’s rise to success and his fall into turpitude, but fails to capture his dubious star power.

The movie tells an admirable and moving story about a woman coming through her troubles, but it conveys no sense of creative or emotional risk.

In “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” the astoundingly prolific showrunner melds his modes as provocateur and clumsy social-justice warrior, with mixed results.

Recognized directors deliver surprising works that expand both their own horizons and the possibilities of the art at large.

In Missy Mazzoli’s “The Listeners,” a group of suburbanites hear a low, pervasive hum that others cannot.

Chris Martin, the band’s front man, discusses reading Rumi, making music like an apple tree grows apples, and the band’s new album, “Moon Music.”

Mendelssohn on Mull celebrates chamber music away from urban pressures.

The artist’s posthumous album is less an expression of her journey than a guide for the rest of us—a last gift.