How Mark Duplass Fights the Sadness

The actor, comedian, and former talk-show host on his path from doing magic tricks and telling jokes to creating a TV show for the culture.

Twenty-two years after the end of “Friends,” the actress returns with a new installment of “The Comeback.”

His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred.

In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage.

The pop star brings motherhood and middle age to the dance floor.

At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children.

Mark Rosenblatt’s début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer.

Some people now have an A.I. bestie. Some have a husband. Some have three.

Also: Daniel Radcliffe stars in “Every Brilliant Thing,” Robert Plant sings roots folk in a cathedral, a soulful retrospective of Beuford Smith, and more.

An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature.

Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.