Jo Livingstone

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Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.

A new collection of stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell explores the line between good taste and desire fulfilled.

In celebrating unsung heroes of history, two new movies overly romanticize the past.

A years-old controversy surrounding the Jones documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” exemplifies the widening gulf between who gets heard online and who doesn’t.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The pandemic has only accelerated a years-long trend of cultural homogenization—and it is bound to get worse.

A.I. research scientist Timnit Gebru raised red flags about Google’s most exciting new tech. She says she was forced out for it.

The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.

Amid the pandemic, a recent documentary about Native American food culture asks audiences to reexamine the origins of this strange holiday.

Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger” is a toothsome morsel.

We may be done with Ivanka, but she is not done with us.

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant play a wealthy couple with a nasty secret in the HBO miniseries.

Christopher Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony” is a galaxy-brain examination of the ways in which markets and sexuality intersect.

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.

“The Secret Life of Groceries” exposes the dark secrets of America’s food supply.

After 50 years of living in rural obscurity, the now-legendary electronic musician has a message for the young.

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length but has far more heft.

Two new books by Jason Diamond and Eula Biss expose the fraught moral dilemmas of living in the ’burbs.