Picasso’s 1903 “La Vie” provides the perfect illustration to explain Palermo’s understanding and appreciation of the artist’s early work. In the painting, one figure stretches a hand into the middle ...

Jane Hu on Weike Wang’s début novel, “Chemistry,” and Asian-Anglophone writers’ use of first-person narrators to play with tropes of Asian impersonality.

Which likely explains why the members of the ominous, inscrutable band Tool chose to cover “No Quarter” as the opening salvo in their sold-out concert Sunday at New Orleans’ Smoothie King ...