The woman behind the music is funny, outspoken, and impossible to put in a box. Jim Farber speaks to Henry Alford whose new ...

This week, illicit antiquity trading, Harlem Renaissance patrons and whiteness, a new biography of Joni Mitchell, Diane Keaton season, and much more.

“My art dealer spoke to someone who ... Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"? Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: ...