The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the Alien​ franchise ​for something rangier and looser.

The essays in Jamaica Kincaid’s Putting Myself Together: Writings 1974– track the maturation of one of our most distinguished writers.

Daniela Catrileo explores Indigenous identity and the rural-urban divide from an intimate, feminist perspective in her newly translated novel, Chilco.

Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.

Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.

A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

The deliberate, delightful excesses of her new rom-com show on Netflix

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest is a masterful, satirical horror tale of a shameless online scammer and the vengeance wreaked by ever-growing numbers of his unhappy customers.

The director’s latest is a none-too-subtle depiction of Covid hysteria, racial justice protests, isolation, and the rottenness of social media—and how they combine to rip apart the fabric of a small town.

The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.

Street vending has become a necessary alternative for many to make ends meet, forging a sense of solidarity while reinforcing inequities.

Highly conscious of its critics, the show seems to acknowledge last season’s missteps—while its main characters face up to uncertain professional and personal futures.

The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

Women’s basketball is bigger than it’s ever been on television, and the player’s association is taking advantage of the spotlight to tell a gripping story about labor.

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.