A new book chronicles decades of extravagant attempts to weaponize psychic powers.

The new novel by Leonardo Padura is a multigenerational epic of baseball, religion, and a mysterious Rembrandt painting.

How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.

Patricia Lockwood and Macy Halford interrogate their spiritual ancestors.

This comedic, nihilistic shoot-‘em-up is a diverting cinematic exercise with nothing underneath.

A new documentary takes us inside an industry that has farmed out the psychological trauma of cleaning up the internet.

Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel lays bare the horrors of collusion with the patriarchy.

Drone technology has birthed a new way of seeing ourselves and the world—and enabled us to surveil anyone or anything, without any legal process.

The turn toward niche obsessions reflects America in all its humble, variegated glory. But at what cost?

Here are the 15 most anticipated films of the summer.

Employers exercise vast control over our lives, even when we're not on the job. How did our bosses gain power that the government itself doesn't hold?

The veteran journalist discusses his new book, and uncovering one of the worst, unpunished crimes in modern American history.

On the pleasures of watching an objectively terrible action movie franchise.

Although the United States was a beacon of hope for Hannah Arendt, she saw vulnerabilities in American-style democracy.

His writings taught the left to embrace the culture of the moment.

A new documentary examines the strange lives of the journalists who man the death-desk at the paper of record.

This hypnotic true story about a journey into the heart of the Amazon asks profound questions about how best to live a life.