A new book attempts to portray the Shah of Iran as a frustrated democrat.

His new novel asks: What happens when everyday life is overloaded with political significance?

The crowd-sourced repository of internet slang is rife with racist and sexist content. But owner Aaron Peckham doesn't seem to care.

The spirit of wounded masculinity haunts America in 'A Ghost Story.'

Twenty years after its release, Cheryl Dunye's black lesbian masterpiece is as revealing as ever.

A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart.

St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.

History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

The women of wrestling grapple with their bodies and forge their own destinies.

Adam Bradley's new book makes a rare, convincing argument for the close reading of pop music.

How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.

American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.

In "Goldfish and Concrete" the Dutch author proves that good things come in small packages.

Can Monocle's globalist chic survive in an age of populism?

In "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," the writer examines the injustices of Indian society. But how political should a novel be?

Sofia Coppola's film evolution from the "Virgin Suicides" to a dreamily-stylized Civil War drama.

A new Netflix documentary about the Gawker-Hulk Hogan trial explores the larger forces that have upended the media industry.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.