On her 12th album, the most dominant pop star of our era makes a spectacle of herself in full flower, in love and holding the music industry in the palm of her hand.

There is a liturgy of prayers and Torah readings in Judaism for remembering the terrible things that have happened to Jews.

You could see the tiny bottles through all the downtowns of the Berkshires, lining walks and clogging gutters, collecting in massive piles behind buildings. The problem seemed to have become ...