In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.

Don DeLillo’s and Jonathan Lethem’s new novels imagine the end of electronic communication.

Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.

The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault.

It undermines equality and the common good.

The curious appeal of the country legend in a divided nation

He was the dean of American cooking. He embodied some of food culture’s most persistent problems.

The upheavals of Hong Kong’s history lie just beneath the surface of his greatest films.

More than iron, stone, or oil, wood explains human history.

Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.

The co-working company may have been doomed from the start. That didn’t matter.

In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.

When Lucian Freud painted Paul, she felt reduced. When Paul paints her subjects, they are exalted.

The story of the country’s rise to dominance shows how it can step back.

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.

The activists of the 1990s worked so diligently that they were written out of history.

In her new film, “Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.

Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?