Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” is a coming-of-age movie set during a legendary chapter in soccer history.

The best reason to listen to Johnny Cash is his music, not his political opinions.

Hernan Cortes, Captain Cook, and Prince Philip were each worshiped as deities—with very different consequences.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie makes the 1970s dreamy but lacks the edge of his earlier films.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Monica Black’s new book, “A Demon-Haunted Land,” tells of the faith healers who prospered in post-war Germany.

In “Inseparable,” Beauvoir revisited an intense relationship from childhood. Why did she decide not to publish it?

In his posthumously-published biography of the artist, Alex Danchev unearths the gleeful child behind the highbrow works.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

Forty years ago, on the barricades for radical feminism, I set out to “prove” she was overrated.

The final installment in John Richardson’s mammoth biography reveals the artist’s fiendish control over his admirers.

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

Joanna Hogg’s film treat a young artist’s coming of age with disarming seriousness.

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

“One Friday in April” is an attempt to write about suicide without the consolations of his signature style.

Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis

Tim Mak’s new book, “Misfire,” traces the spectacularly bungled reign of Wayne LaPierre.

What made her so interested in cold-blooded, apparently motiveless killers?