If a self-consciously clubby restaurant suddenly becomes easy to get into, what’s the point of going at all?

Two new books assess our contemporary scripts for fatherhood.

The groundbreaking director of “Desperately Seeking Susan” on proving people wrong, learning from Nora Ephron, and the upshot of making a movie without realizing you’re pregnant.

A new HBO documentary series follows King George, the eighty-six-year-old overlord of the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the vicious competition to replace him.

The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.

First, the kids drew their dreams. Then they posed next to them, in bed. The resulting black-and-white photos reveal the emotional realism that lies behind the fantastical.