Deborah Levy’s Time Warp
Differing versions of events compete and overlap in “The Man Who Saw Everything.”
Culture
The New MoMA Is More of a Good Thing
The Museum of Modern Art has used a expansive renovation to both reintroduce and celebrate itself.
Moments Without Truth
Making sense of online discourse in the age of Trump
The Transformation of Condé Nast
How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine
On Amazon, a Show About Modern Love
A beloved 'New York Times' column becomes a whole new kind of content.
Come On, LeBron
Why James's comments on the NBA's China scandal were so disappointing.
JoJo Rabbit’s Satire Fail
Despite its setting in Nazi Germany, Taika Waititi’s movie never risks actually disturbing its audience.
An Early Case For Reparations
Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.
The King Is a Chaotic Coming of Age
The new Netflix movie sets Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson on two gloriously, absurdly different paths.
The Art of the Unspeakable
How feminist performance artists found a way to express the trauma of sexual violence
The Politics of Succession
Why the best show about power in the Trump era is not a show about politicians.
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Just Trolling Now
In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.
Olga Tokarczuk’s Gripping Eco-Mystery
The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.
The Tragedy of Diego Maradona
A new documentary cuts through the myths about the Argentinian soccer star.
The Gripping Class Horror of Parasite
Bong Joon-ho’s shapeshifting new film is a thriller about global inequality and resentment.
Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
The Disaster Novelist
To convey the catastrophe of climate change, Amitav Ghosh had to break with realism.
The Far Right’s Apocalyptic Literary Canon
When Trump tweets about "civil war," he's echoing books about race wars and nationalist coups that a violent fringe has long cherished.
The Shrinking Legacy of a Supreme Court Justice
Why veneration of Oliver Wendell Holmes is in decline
The Tyranny of Economists
How can they be so wrong, so often, and yet still exert so much influence on government policy?
