Historian Richard Bell’s new book traces a global upheaval stretching from Philadelphia and London to Freetown and Madras.

Watching the most expensive documentary ever made while the American experiment falls to pieces.

The parallels between state censorship in China and the US are increasingly striking.

In Marisa Meltzer’s biography, Birkin is not primarily a muse. She is an artist who mixed glamor and humility, courage and vulnerability.

The spy show starring Tom Hiddleston is back. But now it feels like Slow Horses.

The show is physical and intimate, surprisingly quiet, and rarely looks beyond the two leads. Somehow it works.

Her very long memoir, Book of Lives, is packed with minute day-to-day detail—but is strangely quiet on a few big subjects.

The movie, starring Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett, probes a web of quietly intriguing family relationships.

The far north has long been a region of exceptional international cooperation. But Trump’s designs on Greenland come at a time of growing instability.

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to the creative process.

In A Star Is Born and Maestro, art tore through relationships. In Bradley Cooper’s new movie, it offers reconciliation.

Kraus’s novels revolve around real estate and the thorny questions of who owns, who rents, and how it shapes their art.

Here are the TNR stories our editors and readers alike loved this year.

Streetwise spirals into chaos centered on charismatic hustlers are director Josh Safdie’s signature.

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

In a year defined by the newly lurid visibility of men’s problems, I was most moved by two series—Dying for Sex and Andor—that offered remarkable performances by women.

With remote locations and characters in exile, some of 2025’s biggest movies gave up on depicting social relations.

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

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics dissected, debated, and most admired this year.

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