San Antonio's Game Seven victory against Oklahoma City announced the arrival of the N.B.A.'s most remarkable new superstar in years, Victor Wembanyama.
"Backrooms" and "Obsession," both directed by precocious YouTube-trained talents, breathe shivery cinematic life into urban legends and cautionary tales.
Ben Gibbard talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about fighting nostalgia and breaking songwriting habits on the band's forthcoming record, "I Built You a Tower."
Martin Scorsese's 1988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ" spurred a bitter battle between Universal and a coalition of Christians who denounced it as sacrilegious. Today's culture wars follow the template it set out.