Jo Livingstone

@Jo_Livingstone

The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again.

The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus.

The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.

The much-celebrated debut novel is representative of a younger generation’s approach to age-old dilemmas.

Two books offer different approaches to the changing relationship between humans and nature.

Introducing the newest, oldest way to engineer a feckless elite

On new nonfiction about white supremacy in America's past and present

“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.

The forgotten intersectionality of disabilities activism

Once upon a time, you could hunt aliens and murderers in the same show.

Why Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s push to turn the structure into a mosque is such a loss

A new movie invokes the lurid charm of the local drinking hole—and challenges our conception of what makes a documentary.

A new book reveals that our paranoid crisis has been a century in the making.

Leigh Stein’s novel “Self Care” drowns wellness Instagrammers in their own moon juice.

The latest series from Michaela Coel captures the contradictions of trying to make art in an age of corporate dominance.

Marching this year was a reminder that the mainstream LGBT movement still needs to cement its commitment to anti-racism.

A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.

The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?

The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.