Former President Jimmy Carter grinned in the Oval Office in January 2009 for a photograph, a visible gap separating him from four of his successors. As the others stood shoulder to shoulder, he positioned himself off to the side, a hand in one pocke

Arlene Croce, who as the dance critic of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996 was both the most revered and the most feared dance writer in the United States, died on Monday in Johnston, R.I. She was 90. Her death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by he

It landed like a bomb. “Discussing the Undiscussable,” a 1994 New Yorker essay by the dance critic Arlene Croce, started off with a sentence that blew the minds of many: “I have not seen Bill T. Jones’s ‘Still/Here’ and have no plans to review it.”

By Richard Sandomirdream club James Ledbetter, a former media critic who wrote the Press Clips column for The Village Voice in the 1990s, led Inc. magazine as its editor in chief and started an online financial technology newsletter, died on Monday

Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world’s leading literary theorists for over 40 yearsmanila game, bringing his brand of rigorous, incisive Marxist criticism to topics as broad as German opera, sci-fi films and luxury hotel design, died o