Jo Livingstone

@Jo_Livingstone

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.

The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.

Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.

In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub skewers small-town bourgeois society.

A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.

“Becoming,” a new documentary, obliquely reveals the ways in which this country did the former First Lady wrong.

A new book about the legendary singer Odetta comes not a minute too soon.

Let the classic billiards game charm its way into your viewing schedule.

In the past month, Bob and Bey have surprised fans with new music. Maybe a duet next?

An intimate documentary about Los Angeles’s queer history

Spike Jonze’s “Beastie Boys Story” tracks the band’s evolution from sexist hoodlums to beloved Gen X heroes.

"Fetch the Bolt Cutters," her first record since 2012, is a lesson in escaping other people’s expectations.

The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”

In Robert Kolker’s "Hidden Valley Road," a family tragedy illuminates the mysterious origins of an illness.

Eliza Hittman’s new movie is a hyper-realistic abortion story.

The final installment of Mantel’s trilogy is the bloodiest yet—and the saddest.

All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom.

Heavy lies the crown in Netflix’s bewildering documentary series about a glamorous but unbalanced zookeeper.

A house podcast style holds back what is otherwise an extraordinary series.