Arts & Culture

These Cavas Offer Champagne Quality at a Fraction of the Cost

Cheap Cava has flooded the market for so long, our expectations for the Spanish sparkling wine—and the amount we’ll pay for it—tend to be low. Our columnist found five quality bottles that overdeliver for the price.

Lettie Teague

6 min read

‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ Review: Growing Pains on a Global Stage

Writer-director Embeth Davidtz offers a beguiling film inspired by Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 memoir about her childhood in southern Africa during the 1980s, when British families like hers were the target of nationalist guerillas.

Kyle Smith

4 min read

‘Memnon’ Review: Will Power on the Waste of War

The playwright borrows elements of Greek tragedy for his story about a lesser-known king who provides defensive aid in the final stages of the siege of Troy.

Charles Isherwood

4 min read

This Savory Fruit Salad Is the Ultimate Heat-Wave Solution

Crunchy black-eyed peas, chile-lime dressing and a bed of mint-flecked labneh push this cool melon salad into dinner territory.

Kitty Greenwald

1 min read

‘My Childhood in Pieces’: A Life of Grins and Groans

When Edward Hirsch was born, his aunt sobbed at how “strange” he looked. Everyone else said he looked like his aunt.

By Richard Babcock

5 min read

‘Nobody Sits Like the French’: The Chair That Charmed Paris

Over the course of seven Paris Expositions, new furnitures, foodstuffs and design ideas were introduced. Many are still part of the fabric of the modern city.

Tobias Grey

2 min read