The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.

Agents also mocked protesters whom they tear-gassed.

The author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie often spoke of a woman whose life mirrored her own but ended tragically.

Jeremy Allen White plays the Boss as a man haunted by the past and terrified of forming meaningful human connections.

Radu Jude pokes fun at AI-generated art by serving up a series of rewarmed variations on classic horror.

The HBO show laid bare the dysfunction of its aggrieved fathers.

In nurse romances written under a pseudonym, Howe began working through the questions that would sustain and bewilder her.

Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.

It is no wonder the interceptors fail in the film. This is an accurate portrayal of what is likely to happen in a crisis.

The Hungarian author’s intricate and complex style has aggravated some and deterred many. Until now.

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the possibility of change.

All the Way to the River taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from the transcendentalists to the Beats.

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows four friends through personal and political upheavals.

What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Your enjoyment of The Lowdown may hinge on whether you find Hawke irreplaceable or irritating.

Trump has always cared about traditional talk shows, even if they are a waning genre.