Pop Culture

“It’s part of the process to me,” said the Oscar and Emmy winner, now starring in the true-crime drama “Murdaugh: Death in the Family.”

By Kathryn Shattuck

Feelings of persecution have long driven Swift’s most powerful songwriting. But even as fans and critics dinged her latest album, her numbers continue to explode.

By Shaad D’Souza

After a whirlwind six years of working with icons and curating her own festival, the singer and songwriter was alone with her work, in search of a fresh spark.

By Melena Ryzik and Chantal Anderson

The Kiss guitarist, who died on Thursday at 74, scored his only Top 20 solo hit with a cover that’s endured for decades.

By Brian Raftery

The director Bill Condon narrates a sequence involving some complicated choreography.

By Mekado Murphy

Little Nightmares III is tastefully morbid, with its clever cooperative puzzles unfolding in a desert, candy factory, carnival and asylum.

By Christopher Byrd

The enraged creatures found in Pokémon Legends: Z-A are part of visual spectacles and adrenaline-inducing battles.

By Harold Goldberg

On her new album, “The BPM,” the songwriter, fiddler and rapper pumps up the beat and crafts a timely narrative about humans and machines.

By Jon Pareles

The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.

By Wesley Morris

There’s fun in Battlefield 6’s multiplayer chaos, but it’s an unmoored soldiering fantasy.

By Yussef Cole

The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.

By Hank Shteamer

The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.

By Jonathan Abrams

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.

By Jon Pareles

Listen to recent releases from Geese, Doja Cat, Neko Case and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

By Ben Sisario

The pop star’s ex-husband Kevin Federline had said in a new book that since her conservatorship ended, “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.”

By Matt Stevens and Julia Jacobs

The pop superstar sold four million copies of her latest album, topping a decade-old milestone by Adele. The tally included 1.3 million vinyl LPs.

By Ben Sisario

Keaton, who died on Saturday, was an actor, director and producer on multiple films and series. Her sole documentary, “Heaven,” explored popular ideas of the afterlife.

By Alexis Soloski

“I made movies for an audience of one, Diane Keaton,” Allen wrote in a remembrance that reflected on the breadth of their relationship.

By Maya Salam

The producer has reached the top of the charts and won Grammys. As he embarks on the next phase of his career, he’s looking back on what he’s learned.

By Jonathan Abrams

In his angry-dad conspiracy thriller, Tim Robinson takes his surreal comedic persona on a longer, weirder journey.

By James Poniewozik

“My career is just beginning because I was only on one show for a decade,” said the longtime “Grey’s Anatomy” actor, now starring in “Hotel Costiera.”

By Kathryn Shattuck

Our team of Swift experts debate her blockbuster new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” and take listener questions about its themes and controversies.

The director Joachim Ronning narrates a sequence from his film featuring Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and Jared Leto.

By Mekado Murphy

This month’s picks include a modern fairy tale horror and an adaptation of a beloved graphic novel series.

By Dina Gachman

The Canadian rapper sued for defamation and harassment, and accused the record company behind both artists of boosting his rival.

By Joe Coscarelli

In its first five days of release, Swift’s new album broke a record set by Adele’s “25” a decade ago. Swift’s equivalent sales include 1.2 million on vinyl.

By Ben Sisario

Inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” single, listen to a playlist of songs that use the tragic “Hamlet” heroine as inspiration.

By Lindsay Zoladz

After two years of war and acrimony, “Red Alert” and “One Day in October” focus on the horrors of a single day.

By James Poniewozik

“Last Rites,” a book detailing the final 15 years of the metal luminary’s life, is arriving at the same time as “No Escape From Now,” a documentary about a challenging period.

By Hank Shteamer

“The Life of a Showgirl” dominated streaming, conversation and movie theaters this weekend. But reaction to the album — especially its lyrics — was mixed.

By The New York Times

The Nashville singer and songwriter has written songs for Maren Morris and toured with Harry Styles. Her new album, “Fatal Optimist,” is bravely bare.

By Marissa R. Moss

A new series airs on Netflix and the long-running medical show “Grey’s Anatomy” returns for its 22nd season.

By Shivani Gonzalez

The Tom Petty hit has a rich cinematic legacy that Paul Thomas Anderson draws on for the closing moments of his tale of radical revolutionaries.

By Esther Zuckerman

A true-crime story on PBS’s “Masterpiece” harks back to a hard-boiled tradition.

By Mike Hale

Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of the tragic “Hamlet” heroine on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” But did she really need saving?

By Lindsay Zoladz

For a rapid-response episode of Popcast, we journeyed track-by-track through the pop star’s new album, assessing the highs, lows and hot gossip.

Many who have tracked the music mogul’s career think his reputation has been irreparably damaged by testimony of abusive behavior as a boss and boyfriend.

By Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

“When those bugs are crawling on Kate Capshaw in ‘Temple of Doom,’ I’m having the time of my life,” the actress and author said.

By Kathryn Shattuck

The pop star’s new album arrived with a limited-run film in which she debuts a video for “The Fate of Ophelia” and chats about the LP’s songs.

By Esther Zuckerman

“Nobody Wants This” is back and so is Kathryn Bigelow, with a new political thriller starring Idris Elba.

By Noel Murray

“Saturday Night Live” is back this weekend with several new cast members. It’s facing a particularly fraught climate for political jokes on TV.

By Maya Salam

An interview with the conservationist is the first in a new series, “Famous Last Words.” More episodes are in the vault, their subjects unknown, for now.

By Matt Stevens

On her 12th original album, the pop superstar sounds hungry to embrace her future — but not until she attends to some unfinished business.

By Jon Caramanica

The music mogul submitted a letter to the court ahead of his sentencing on Friday for his conviction on two prostitution-related counts.

By Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario

The star’s power and reach has grown with each of her releases. Now she’s following her record-breaking live show with her 12th original studio LP, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

By Ben Sisario

The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.

By Mark Yarm and Adali Schell

The frontwoman and songwriter on how the evolution of her long-running band has shaped her third solo release, and what might come next.

By Joe Coscarelli, Jon Caramanica and Meghan Marin

The music mogul will be in court on Friday when a judge is scheduled to announce Mr. Combs’s penalty for convictions on two prostitution-related offenses.

By Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

The pop star and the Swedish producer connected on her 2012 LP, “Red.” They’ve reunited (with his collaborator Shellback) for “The Life of a Showgirl.”

By Brian Raftery

The music mogul will be sentenced on Friday after a jury found him guilty of transporting people for prostitution.

By Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario

Mr. Combs, who was convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution, is set to be sentenced on Friday. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence him to more than 11 years in prison.

By Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs

Look back at six pivotal moments as the singer and songwriter prepares to release her 12th original studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

By The New York Times

Ed Gein inspired fictional killers like Norman Bates and Leatherface. In Ryan Murphy’s latest series, Charlie Hunnam seeks the man behind the dead-skin mask.

By Alexis Soloski

Across television, film and podcast, these four stories use personal tragedies as a way to illuminate bigger institutional failures in health care.

By Maya Salam

The British pop star, who has acknowledged mental health issues, fell backward during a performance Saturday. She has canceled shows in New Jersey and Maryland.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

The host of the hit reality dating show talks about the pleasures of kimchi jjigae, crunchy fallen leaves and do-not-disturb mode.

By Shivani Gonzalez

The singer’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things pop-up shows highlight how she continues to deviate from the rising pop star’s expected playbook.

By Lindsay Zoladz and Nina Westervelt

In 1997, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swapped identities and faces in John Woo’s extravagant action thriller. The results were fabulously ludicrous.

By Maya Salam

The music mogul arrived in court on Thursday in jail clothes. His lawyers argued that his conviction rests on an unjust use of the Mann Act.

By Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario

“Twilight Override,” the latest solo project by the Wilco leader, is a triple album that earns every minute.

By Jon Pareles and Lyndon French

The pioneering session musician, 90, remains a fiercely independent thinker. “I have to do things the way I see fit.”

By Bob Mehr and Elizabeth Weinberg

The hybrid kids have an important revelation about who should be afraid of whom. Just deserts will be served.

By Sean T. Collins

In honor of a gem from Alex G, listen to tracks from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

The music mogul’s lawyers said in a filing that their incarcerated client deserves to be let go soon after his Oct. 3 sentencing on prostitution-related charges.

By Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario

On an uneven but sometimes inspired second album, the rapper is pugnacious, reflective and rarely short on charisma.

By Lindsay Zoladz

The director Justin Tipping narrates a sequence from his film.

By Mekado Murphy

Stallone, the 79-year-old leading man on “Tulsa King,” has high praise for his 27-year-old co-star as the show returns for its third season.

By Jonathan Abrams

Over more than two decades in TV, the comedian has gone from a challenger of politically correct discourse to a frequent antagonist of the right.

By Julia Jacobs

The Puerto Rican superstar, with 12 nods, and the multigenre duo from Argentina, with 10, will compete in the biggest categories.

By Ben Sisario

The two actors play mutually toxic brothers in a new Netflix crime drama set amid the seedy underside of the downtown New York restaurant scene.

By Melena Ryzik and Cody Cutter

Jenny Han, the showrunner, handpicked music that referenced previous generations’ pop culture for Amazon Prime’s young adult drama.

By Shivani Gonzalez

Hear recent tracks from Bon Iver, Dijon, Karol G and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

It was a great night for new series, first-time winners and a late-night show canceled by the ceremony’s broadcaster. The writing and gags? Not as great.

By The New York Times

Decades ago, singles were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.

By Christian Kriticos and Ye Fan

As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.

By Grayson Haver Currin

Here are the winners from the 77th Emmy Awards, which took place Sunday night.

By Shivani Gonzalez

“My mom said, ‘You can have the album or you can see them in concert,’” the actor said. “I said, ‘Well, the album is forever and the girls will ruin the concert with their screaming.’”

By Kathryn Shattuck

The realities surrounding the league and the pressures athletes face make the sport ripe for the frightfest “HIM,” its makers say.

By Emmanuel Morgan

For his new take on the classic tale, del Toro aimed to defy expectations. He envisioned the creature as a thing of beauty and a work of art.

By Maya Salam