In Olivia Wilde’s trouble-in-paradise thriller “Don’t Worry Darling,” Florence Pugh plays a devoted housewife called Alice, a common enough name that here evokes a few famous antecedents. Watching her go...

The actor Brendan Fraser got emotional as audiences at the Venice Film Festival gave a six-minute standing ovation on Sunday after seeing the world premiere of his upcoming film “The...

On the Shelf The Unfolding By A.M. HomesViking: 416 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent...

Rosa pizza from Pizzeria Bianco The week before my friend John Adams was diagnosed with cancer, we ate pizza. We sat at a table at Pizzeria Bianco in downtown Phoenix...

Comment on this storyCommentThis summer, Apple added a new entry in the Cooking Mama franchise to its gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade. In “Cooking Mama: Cuisine!,” you help craft dishes...

WASHINGTON — When a comparison was made between the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and a similar debacle in Vietnam 46 years earlier, President Biden and his administration recoiled.The...

Vaclav Smil rarely agrees to interviews. Too many in the media have portrayed him as a tool of Big Oil, he says — because he insists on pointing out how...

SACRAMENTO — Despite lots of private grousing about him, Gov. Gavin Newsom emerged a big winner at the end of the California Legislature’s two-year session.The griping was over his waiting until the...

There is an adage in the business world that speaks a truth at the heart of many work, family and health dysfunctions: “Work expands to fill the available time.” Of...

Comment on this storyCommentGoogle is famous for its cafeterias, which serve its legions of programmers and product managers everything from vegan poke to gourmet tacos — free.But the cooks and...