How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

All the Way to the River taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from the transcendentalists to the Beats.

What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Your enjoyment of The Lowdown may hinge on whether you find Hawke irreplaceable or irritating.

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.

His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.

The beloved author’s memoir recounts her relationship with the eccentric, abusive, protofeminist Mrs. Roy.

Denzel Washington delights as usual in an uneven thriller based on a classic Kurosawa film.

Will There Ever Be Another You is a lyrical, chaotic journal of holy and profane dispatches from our grief-soaked timeline.

The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the Alien​ franchise ​for something rangier and looser.

Daniela Catrileo explores Indigenous identity and the rural-urban divide from an intimate, feminist perspective in her newly translated novel, Chilco.

Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.

A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

The deliberate, delightful excesses of her new rom-com show on Netflix

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

Women’s basketball is bigger than it’s ever been on television, and the player’s association is taking advantage of the spotlight to tell a gripping story about labor.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?