Leonard Cohen could evoke a spiritual response in an audience with his religious imagery and the heavenly backing singers in ...

I’m a reporter covering breaking news in culture and the arts. When I’m at home, I prefer to take things much slower with YouTube shows, good R&B songs and well-curated coffee table books. Here are ...

You can’t sustain a career like Paul McCartney's without versatility. If he had only one trick in his bag, that would have ...

YHWH Nailgun is not a rapper. Those abbreviated letters don’t pledge allegiance to any hip-hop collective. “YHWH” is pronounced “Yahweh,” as in God in the Hebrew Bible, and YHWH Nailgun are four guys.

Jesse Colin Young, who sang one of the signature songs of the 1960s counterculture, the Youngbloods’ “Get Together,” before ...

No. No secular music allowed in the house, no secular TV. I could only watch one show a week, and movies and cassette tapes ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

Not many artists release their first solo record two decades after their debut album. That’s the case for Mike Delevante, ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...