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Hear the songs that caught our critics' attention this week, from a studio reverie by Beck to a globe-hopping track by Major Lazer.

We explore what the films teach us about ourselves and each other.

The ride-sharing app has recently shifted its focus to the city’s other boroughs, leading it to a milestone: More people are using Uber than the city’s fabled yellow cabs.

Months before recreational marijuana becomes available to consumers, fires are destroying cannabis farms and exposing plants to smoke, soot and ash.

Some birds and animals found shelter during recent hurricanes, but many will struggle to live in a changed environment.

Life-settlement providers purchase policies from older people who want the money now. Sometimes that’s a good idea — and sometimes not.

In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work — but also a major revision of it.

Bright lights pop up again in big cities. “We want the promise that everything is going to be O.K.,” one historian said. “We want the joy back.”

A day after warning that he “cannot keep” troops and emergency workers in the hurricane-ravaged island “forever,” the president signals solidarity.

Many of the Chinese president’s aggressive plans are underpinned by an idealistic view that China’s 200-year eclipse is ending.

As the 200th birthday of Mary Shelley’s monstrous allegory approaches, an exploration of its resonance with artists.

Russell Okung published an open letter calling on players to focus on their goals of addressing inequality rather than reacting to criticism.

In “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women,” the writer-director Angela Robinson tells a knotty story with wit, sympathy and economy.

The president’s actions could significantly damage the health insurance market and harm millions of people.

The law still stands. But the markets could get messy and expensive for certain groups of people.

The cheerleaders at Howard, a historically black university, kneel during the national anthem before football games. Players don’t get the chance.

The “Saturday Night Live” alumnus plays a rising comic courting a new level of fame in this show business satire on Showtime.

The music may be intimidating, but Pam Tanowitz, collaborating with the pianist Simone Dinnerstein, found freedom in its formal structure.

The star of the new series “Loudermilk” talks about his latest surly character, working with Harry Dean Stanton and the role that keeps on giving.

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