The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing ...

Elsewhere in the episode, Carpenter had the honor of sharing the stage with Paul Simon for a performance of “Homeward Bound.” First, Simon explained that he sang the song with George Harrison of The ...