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The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger question is whether it matters.

For his latest exhibition, the artist used doppelgängers to investigate how art, and people, are made.

Celebrate the Fourth of July with an address on the state of the hot dog, a chance to make ice cream the old-fashioned way and a film that offers up a peculiar slice of Americana.

The music mogul remains in custody after he was convicted on two counts of transporting prostitutes. A judge will determine his prison sentence at an unspecified date.

In defusing much of the government's case, lawyers for the music mogul did not dispute that he did bad things. They disputed that they matched the crimes he was charged with.

In her return to action, Thurman is pitted against Theron in "The Old Guard 2." The two discuss the pains and pleasures of the genre.

Thornton Wilder's play became a blockbuster musical, but a production under an upstate tent makes the case for its stand-alone virtues.

Sean Combs, convicted of arranging for the travel of escorts across state lines but acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, will remain in jail until sentencing.