INSPIRE

Warm-Up Rituals: How Actors, Comedians and Musicians Get Ready

Where the Precious Things Are: Maurice Sendak’s Art Collection to Be Auctioned

A Burned-Out Designer Tried to Heal by Making a Cozy Game

A Video Game Writer’s Lament: ‘We Can Do Quite a Lot Better’

Jeff Baena, Film Director and Screenwriter, Dies at 47

Allan Blye, 87, Dies; ‘Smothers Brothers’ Writer and ‘Super Dave’ Creator

Wanted: Writers for Awards Show Jokes. Must Be Skilled at Diplomacy

These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection. They May Never Be the Same.

Jeff Koons Killed Her Review

How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets

Here’s what to know.

Dawn Powell’s Writing Has Been Rediscovered. What About Her Grave?

Egos! Drama! Desmond Child, a Pop Hitmaker, Is Telling His Story.

With writers on strike (and actors possibly right behind them), it’s an awkward time for Emmy nominations.

Rob Delaney Wants You to Know How He’s Feeling (It May Ruin Your Day)

The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir

David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80

A White Author’s Book About Black Feminism Was Pulled After a Social Media Outcry

Dave Hickey, Iconoclastic Art Critic, Dies at 82

From Henry Louis Gates Jr., Another Scholarly Megaproject