Brooke Hauser

Ethan Hawke is coming to Boston this Thursday to talk about directing his daughter Maya Hawke, who plays Flannery O’Connor in “Wildcat.” He’ll be at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre for a post-screening Q&A.

Say what you will about the artist’s rather striking, larger-than-life oil painting of the monarch. But it’s got people talking.

An off-the-cuff, not-at-all comprehensive guide to the film’s locations around the Pioneer Valley. What are your favorite summer spots in the area? Tell us in the comments.

“To some extent, carrying the accent correctly, at least on screen, is as much about attitude — a mixture of loyalty, pride, and not giving a you-know-what — as anything else,” says Jon Chesto.

Authors Against Book Bans fights censorship by deploying authors to the front lines, from social media to school board meetings.

Anyone can dance on a tree, but you can’t dance with a tree if you don’t understand it the way Serenity Smith Forchion does.

The pioneering talk show host, who died Sunday at 88, understood the American public’s desire to be heard — and women’s distaste for being talked down to.

With school starting, there’s a fresh crop of cuts, and barbers are doing everything they can to keep up.

Weeks after filing for divorce from Ben Affleck, she was in Toronto to promote her new film produced by Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity. Here’s what else they have coming up.

Her new book, "The Unseen Truth," argues that once we saw whiteness as fiction but chose to let it harden into "fact."