"All of the worst tendencies in comic books--the sloppiness, the violence, the cheapness--are opposed by the work of Alex Ross," wrote Richard von Busack in a MetroActive review of Ross's illustrations for the 1999 graphic novel Superman: Peace on...

The New Yorker's classical music reviewer Alex Ross, (whom the Observer's Doree Shafrir considers the best listener in America) and The New York Times' (mostly) jazz writer Ben Ratcliff have been firing off emails about pop, jazz and classical to each other and posting...

Firestone always seems the perfect place for Tiger Woods to show his best stuff.This year, the timing could not have been much better.In the final event before the final major of the year, Woods buried Rory Sabbatini and the rest of the field Sunday at...

Tiger Woods looked as unbeatable as ever Sunday at Firestone. Woods erased a one-shot deficit in two holes, then buried Rory Sabbatini and the rest of the field to win the Bridgestone Invitational for the third straight year and send him to the PGA Championship...

In March 1978, when the country was still in the throes of discomania, New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross bought his first LP: a recording of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony. He was 10 years old. Given that Mr. Ross didn’t discover...