What’s New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson

FIRST SINGLE PERSON: Stories, Haruki Murakami’s photo. Translated by Philip Gabriel. (Vintage, 256 p., $17.) In eight stories, Murakami’s classic first-person narrators meditate on music, sports, youth memories and more, often swirling between realism and a deeper, philosophical wisdom. As our critic David Means puts it, this collection “merges or perhaps skips across cultures, defies …

Richard Linklater and Sandra Adair: Three Years of Action and Deductions

In “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood”” In a Netflix animated comedy set in the 1960s suburbs of Houston, a group of teenagers descend into a Popsicle stand to escape the Texas heat. One by one, they go to the first delicious lick, only to discover that their tongues are instantly stuck to the freezer-burnt …

Famous Poet and Translator Richard Howard Dies At 92

A villa full of idols. Mr. Howard’s latest poetry collection in 2014 benefited from his own early education.Credit…Turtle Point Press In his latest collection, “A Progressive Education” (2014), Mr. Howard imagined in poetic form the letters written collectively by a class of sixth graders in Sandusky, Ohio, circa 1950. Disturbed by a science experiment with …

Beyoncé Gets Her First Oscar Nomination for ‘King Richard’

Notice, Lin-Manuel Miranda — Beyoncé entered the conversation. Already the top Grammy-winning female artist, the 40-year-old earned her first Oscar nomination for “Best Original Song” on Tuesday.to be aliveA pulsating power ballad he wrote with lyricist Dixson forKing Richard”A biography about Venus and Serena Williams’ father. Accompanied by archival footage of the real Williams family, …

Richard Linklater Movie Set for ‘The Lost City’ and SXSW

Moon landings, multiverses, and Nicolas Cage’s movie star musings will be a part of this year. South by Southwest Film Festival castThe organizers announced Wednesday. Offerings in Austin, Texas include the festival “The Lost City,” directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee, starring Sandra Bullock as a romance novelist embarking on a “Romancing the Stone”-style …