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Writing with his customary intensity about his favorite sport, David Foster Wallace described tennis as ''chess on the run, beautiful and infinitely dense.'' In his droll and erudite new novel, [...]

THE COMPLETE STORIES By Clarice Lispector Edited by Benjamin Moser Translated by Katrina Dodson 645 pages. New Directions. $28.95. On the very first page of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn 1882, the writer Anton Chekhov, just 22 and beginning his literary career, submitted a dozen short stories to Czar Alexander III's censors, who discerned a subversive intent and [...]

THE well-worn phrase ''Mi casa es tu casa'' may be a perfect expression of Latin American warmth and hospitality, but it leaves some basic questions unanswered, especially if you are [...]

The German film director Wim Wenders was walking down La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles one day in the mid-1980s when out of the corner of his eye he caught [...]

Samuel Charters, whose books and field research helped detonate the blues and folk music revival of the 1960s and '70s, died on Wednesday at his home in Arsta, Sweden. He [...]

Samuel Charters, whose books and field research helped detonate the blues and folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, died on Wednesday at his home in Arsta, Sweden. He [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER In Manchuria. A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China. By Michael Meyer. Illustrated. 365 pages. Bloomsbury. $28. In Chinese, the region that was once [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER As the Argentine film director and screenwriter Damián Szifrón sees it, 'what separates civilization from barbarism' is 'a complex battery of social inhibitors' that prevent us from [...]

As the Argentine film director and screenwriter Damißn Szifrn sees it, ''what separates civilization from barbarism'' is ''a complex battery of social inhibitors'' that prevent us from retaliating with violence [...]

The field in this year's competition for the Oscar for best feature documentary is varied but arranged in clusters. Two are about photographers (one celebrated, one largely unknown), two (including [...]

[Video: Watch on YouTube.] As the war in Vietnam recedes deeper into history, replaced in the American consciousness by more recent conflicts in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, its lessons [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER The German film director Wim Wenders is also a photographer with numerous exhibitions and books to his credit, and has collected the work of the Brazilian photographer [...]

Argentina Emerging from a bakery with a birthday cake for his daughter, a man discovers that his car has been towed. At her wedding reception, a bride realizes that her [...]

[Video: Watch on YouTube.] The German film director Wim Wenders is also a photographer with numerous exhibitions and books to his credit, and has collected the work of the Brazilian [...]

NEWBERRY, S.C. -- Sue Summer may seem at first glance an unlikely candidate to be involved in one of South Carolina's most contentious press freedom cases in recent years. She [...]

So much has been written and said about the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden and the explosive revelations of massive electronic snooping contained in the government documents [...]

In a decision likely to significantly affect the long-running dispute over James Brown's estate, a judge in South Carolina has ruled that Tommie Rae Hynie Brown is the widow of [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER 'Virunga,' one of 15 candidates shortlisted for the best documentary Oscar, is a nature film with an edge. The title refers to a national park in eastern [...]

''Virunga,'' one of 15 candidates shortlisted for the best documentary Oscar, is a nature film with an edge. The title refers to a national park in the Democratic Republic of [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER Another Oscar season, another snub for the Dardenne brothers. Their 'Two Days, One Night,' Belgium's submission for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, won various festival [...]

Another Oscar season, another snub for the Dardenne brothers. Their ''Two Days, One Night,'' Belgium's submission for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, won various festival and critics' awards, [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER In the fall of 1966, John Lennon took a break from the Beatles and went to southern Spain, where he acted in Richard Lester's black comedy 'How [...]

In 2008, the Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev was in Manhattan shooting a chapter of the anthology film ''New York, I Love You,'' when he heard the story of an auto-repair [...]

After disembarking from a Los Angeles to London flight in February 1969, the recording engineer and producer Glyn Johns went straight to a studio to work with the Beatles on [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER In 2008, the Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev was in Manhattan shooting a chapter of the anthology film 'New York, I Love You,' when he heard the story [...]

AIKEN, S.C. -- James Brown's will was meant to be everything his life was not. The manic energy that fueled a career of funk classics, pyrotechnic dancing and relentless touring [...]

Only one African director has ever won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, and that was the South African Gavin Hood in 2005. So the Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako is [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER At first glance, the field for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film looks inscrutable: a record 83 countries and territories submitted entries, including four that are [...]

The Academy has winnowed the list of documentary feature contenders to 15: ''Art and Craft''''The Case Against 8Çþ''Citizen Koch''''Citizenfour''''Finding Vivian Maier''''The Internet's Own Boy''''Jodorowsky's Dune''''Keep On Keepin' On''''The Kill Team''''Last [...]

Byline: LARRY ROHTER The Israeli pianist Idan Raichel was at the airport in Berlin in 2008 when he spotted the Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and decided to introduce himself. [...]

The Israeli pianist Idan Raichel was at the airport in Berlin in 2008 when he spotted the Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Tour and decided to introduce himself. From that chance [...]

BRIAN JONES The Making of the Rolling Stones By Paul Trynka Illustrated. 371 pages. Viking. $28.95. Brian Jones is to the Rolling Stones what Leon Trotsky was to the Russian […]