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“What’s happening these days,” the singer said at the start of a Joe’s Pub residency, “is weird, and not cool.”

BY THE TIME Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, a number of the sugar plantation owners there had moved on, but the island remained a refuge for a certain type of English expat: literary, artistic, wealthy. The “James Bond” author Ian …

“People underestimate melon,” the actress Meghann Fahy said. ”I don’t think they give it a chance.” Fahy was speaking on a drizzly morning in April, two weeks before her 35th birthday, in an Edible Arrangements outlet on Manhattan’s Upper East Side …

Mandy Catron’s essay about her unconventional first date with Mark Bondyra went viral. Ten years later, they are rewriting the script on marriage, too.

Judge Hannah C. Dugan claimed judicial immunity this week after a federal grand jury indicted her.

You’re reading the Frank Bruni newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Reflections on the mess (and magic) of politics and life. Get it with a Times subscription.Laura Loomer is unhappy. She’s unhappy with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — in part, it seems …

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, has long experienced the threat — and reality — of government surveillance. After the group’s anti-Putin, balaclava-wearing, punk-inspired performance at Moscow’s main …

At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine.

Ms. Adams, the City Council speaker, is releasing a crime plan that creates hiring and retention incentives for police officers while also investing in diversion programs.

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”