In Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé,” a young woman is determined to survive the slums — first by doing sex work, then by posting her gruesome reality for the world to see. By Susie Boyt Susie Boyt is the ...

French director Jacques Audiard’s prison film, Un prophète (A Prophet), has received numerous accolades and awards. It was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language picture, won the ...

The narrator of Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé” (Archipelago, 224 pages, $18) is Célia Jérôme, a destitute young woman in Haiti’s gang-ridden Cité of Divine Power, a “lost corner of a lost country, a boil ...

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

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Most people will likely never get to attend the annual Met Gala, one of the world’s swankiest events held in New York City. But thanks to Backstage, actor Elyse Prophete got his shot—well, sort of.

This image released by Bard College shows Jennifer Feinstein as Fids, foreground center, and Robert Watson as Jean de Leyde, during a performance of "Le prophte," at Fisher Center at Bard College in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For 19th-century audiences, Giacomo Meyerbeer was synonymous with grand opera. The German composer combined the ...

Rose Prophete thought the second mortgage loan on her Brooklyn borough of New York City home was resolved about a decade ago – until she received paperwork claiming she owed more than $130,000. “I was ...