Alice Diop’s courtroom drama is a story of aspiration and cruelty in a racist society.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas

The rise of “Lean In”–style feminism—and the women who fought for a better alternative

“The Philosophy of Modern Song” was never going to offer a systematic analysis of great music.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

A new biography traces Rhys’s life of self-sabotage, excess, and devotion to art.

The Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel makes a thoroughly American spectacle of suffering.

How the consulting firm’s cost-cutting logic devoured America

In David Quammen’s books, intrepid scientists hunt down viruses and avert crises. The story of Covid-19 offers no such resolution.

“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’s documentary about Nan Goldin, is part portrait of the artist, part exposé.

Sarah Polley’s film rejects the demand the world makes of rape victims: that their stories be polished and flawless

Sanctions were conceived as an alternative to war. But they may have made the world more violent.

The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.

For 26 years, Eliot wrote intense, passionate letters to Emily Hale. Should they change the way we read his poetry?

The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government

Nikyatu Jusu’s portrait of a nanny’s breakdown fuses horror and social realism.