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Dear Mick LaSalle: I once met Gene Hackman at a boxing match and spoke with him. Nice man. Did you ever meet him? Robert Freud Bastin, Petaluma Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene ...

Particularly grating is when the two — beautiful — middle-aged actors, Fey and Kerri Kenney (“Reno 911!”) crack fatphobic jokes, especially at their own expense. It’s not funny, and it’s not ...

While Sameer Pandya was writing his latest novel “Our Beautiful Boys,” he knew he wanted to somehow work in one of his favorite photos that’s been sitting on his desk for years. It’s a faded snapshot ...

The art form might be called drama, but gentleness is a perfectly valid approach onstage. Such plays slow time down, the way bird-watching does. Your breath resets to the rhythm of wind between boughs ...

“Tenderness” is the word that keeps coming to mind while watching Alex Ketley’s “An Approximation of Resilience.” The dance is unfailingly, unflaggingly, extraordinarily tender. This is surprising, ...

On July 19, 2023, Saou Ichikawa won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her short but mighty debut novel, “Hunchback” — making her the first disabled person to be given the honor in the award’s 90 ...

For kids today, sex positivity is all the rage. Until it’s their grandparents who are having sex. OK, maybe June isn’t just any sexual being. And as the title of “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex ...

As Timo is leaving his old friend Mickey to die in an icy crevice on a barren planet, he says, “Nice knowing you, have a nice death” — before adding, “See you tomorrow.” Mickey (Robert Pattinson), you ...

Written inside the lead ballerinas’ costumes in San Francisco Ballet’s “Manon” is a familiar name: “T. Rojo.” Tamara Rojo, who is entering her second repertory season as the Ballet’s artistic director ...

If you’re at all involved in the theater scene, you may have heard of the name Betty Shamieh. A celebrated Palestinian American playwright, Shamieh is the author of 15 plays, including the sold-out ...

This novel is a rewarding endeavor, especially for readers familiar with Han’s oeuvre who can recognize it as a mosaic that artfully pieces together her long-simmering ideas on reckoning with ...