ANNA FURMAN

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
Q&A: Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner on melancholy and her new album
Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast released the Grammy-nominated album “Jubilee” and bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart” in 2021. Then came a film adaptation of her memoir, for which she wrote the screenplay.
 
A childhood photo of Samira Zoobi, a 28-year-old who died in Hurricane Helene, was returned to their parents. (Taylor Schenker via AP)
How photos lost in American disasters find their way home, with a little help from people who care
In the wake of deadly disasters, communities across the United States have banded together to search for lost photographs stuck in rivers and trees, or buried in the rubble.
 
From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year
Depending on who you ask, the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country or were cause for celebration. Is it any surprise the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”?
 
Singer-songwriter Katie Gavin poses for a portrait on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Q&A: Muna’s Katie Gavin on comfort music, creative freedom and her debut solo record
Katie Gavin is self-proclaimed “gay famous.” The frontwoman of the pop band Muna, Gavin burst onto the scene three years ago with “Silk Chiffon,” an anthem to queer joy.
 
FILE - People participate in a sit-in demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war at De Longpre Park in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Over the past three months, on banners and T-shirts and balloons and social media posts, one piece of imagery has emerged around the world in protests against the Israel-Hamas war: the watermelon. The fruit has increasingly come to be recognized as a symbol of Palestinian resistance and a global sign of solidarity. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
How watermelon imagery, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians, spread around the planet
Watermelons have emblazoned banners, T-shirts, balloons and social media over the past three months in global protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
 
This cover image released by Harper Collins Publishers shows "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" by Prudence Peiffer. (Harper Collins Publishers via AP)
Book Review: ‘The Slip’ uncovers art history in New York’s downtown waterfront of the 1950s
Group biographies are ambitious undertakings. To weave together divergent narratives, even about the most widely known figures, is a challenging feat; To make it coalesce, the writer has to find the right balance of substance and texture.
 
Luke DePalatis, right, gets a cooling spritz of water from Michael Abel during a rally by striking writers and actors outside Warner Bros. studios Friday, July 14, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. Both are with the WGA. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
On the picket lines with Hollywood’s actors and writers, from LA to New York
The sidewalks of Hollywood and midtown Manhattan teemed with actors joining Hollywood’s writers in protest outside the corporate offices of studios, streamers, and production companies.