The Act Illuminates a Lethal Bond
A new drama about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard renders an abusive relationship with brutal clarity.
A new drama about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard renders an abusive relationship with brutal clarity.
The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.
His sophomore effort, featuring a rampaging gang of doppelgängers, radically expands the themes of his film debut "Get Out."
A multiple-choice quiz on some of the great issues of our time
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
Food culture has never been bigger. It's also never been more controversial.
Édouard Louis confronts the French elite’s contempt for the poor.
Mark Cousins’s documentary captures the ambition of the young director, who learned, among the skyscrapers of Chicago, to look up.
Can the artist’s things tell us what drove her?
A pioneer of abstraction, the Swedish artist made mysterious, cosmic paintings her life’s work.
Why his fall from grace implicates all of us
Hugh Ryan’s book traces a largely forgotten history.
The debate between Steven Spielberg and Netflix misses the real problem facing filmmaking in America.
A new biography evokes the enchanted sprawl and smog of Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Remembering Keith Flint and the techno-apocalyptic aesthetic that dominated pop culture at the turn of the millennium.
The GOP's latest attack against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is dishonest. But history shows why it might work.
Briallen Hopper elevates the relationships American culture has overlooked and deflated.
James Lasdun’s "Afternoon of a Faun," about a rape allegation, bears an eerie relation to his memoir of a stalking.
“The Other Two” portrays a micro-generation that’s too young for Gen X complacency and too old for YouTube fame.
In his writing on disordered eating and body image, Kiese Laymon grapples with a legacy of disenfranchisement.