A new book argues that careful study of the Constitution’s history could support a liberal agenda.

Vince Gilligan’s new show imagines a world devoid of any kind of aesthetic experience that isn’t blandly generalizable.

A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.

The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.

The author knew recognition of her works would take time—and planned accordingly.

Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

The Mars craze is a case study in twisting evidence and defying facts.

Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?

Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s new show is distinctly more surreal and uncanny than Severance.

Joachim Trier’s skillful, literate movies tick a lot of boxes.

It Was Just An Accident reckons with cruelty and repression.

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.