While Will Butler didn’t announce his split from Arcade Fire until March — shortly after the release of the band’s sixth studio album WE — his tenure with the indie rock ensemble had actually ended when the project was complete. Now, Butler has returned with “A Stranger’s House” and “Nearer …

In his new memoir, “Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond,” Chris Blackwell looks back on an unmatched career in the music business. Written with Paul Morley, the book recounts Blackwell’s boyhood growing up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with the likes of Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol …

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletter The mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have provided the latest and most extreme examples of a breathtaking epidemic of gun violence in the United States. More than …