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?

His novel “Red Pill” portrays a liberal’s crisis at the approach of the Trump era.

How the Simulmatics Corporation tried to engineer an election—and paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal

“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.

In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.

They’re not trying to save the GOP from a demagogue. They’re infiltrating the Democratic Party.

How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

“The Truth” builds subtly on the ambitious drama of “Shoplifters.”

Why her new novel, “Death in Her Hands,” strives to be gross

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

The legacy of Donald Judd in a time of quarantine

His new book diagnoses a society obsessed with property rights.

Why do we watch dramas about right-wing women?

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel centers on two very connected, very guarded lovers.