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A list of things to give that are secondhand or--if they must be new--emulate the craftsmanship and quality of an earlier time.

In Ha Jin's "Looking for Tank Man," uncovering the past doesn't guarantee making peace with the present.

The year's most-liked gag drawings suggest that you, our readers, are really going through something.

A bad year for the United States, a better one for China.

All it takes is a little loyalty.

This year, Hollywood's decline was evident from its output--but a few great, conversation-starting shows made our critic crave the return of the water cooler.

Critics love to make these kinds of breathless pronouncements. But with this band, currently on tour to promote its album "Getting Killed," controlled hysteria is sort of the point.

Reopening with work by Tom Lloyd and others, the museum is a manifestation of possibility, specifically in Black lives.

Reopening with work by Tom Lloyd and others, the museum is a manifestation of possibility, specifically in Black lives.

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state.