Authors and publishers alike are finding that it's hard to sell books in a political climate where truth is stranger than fiction.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory.

Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.

We discuss "Stormborn," the second episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

"An Inconvenient Truth" turned the former vice president into a climate hero. Will he reclaim the mantle with "An Inconvenient Sequel"? Many activists in the environmental movement hope not.

The president has repeatedly identified with this ancient, persecuted figure, just as young marginalized women have started to do the same.

TNT’s new drama "Will" is an odd but invigorating fantasy of the Bard's salad days.

How Trump is helping to revive the publishing industry.

Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America.

“The Bold Type” is a reboot of a now-familiar television genre, with an updated politics that doesn’t quite meet its moment.

How Angela Carter escaped a puritanical childhood and stifling marriage, and reimagined sexuality.

We discuss "Dragonstone," the first episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

A new biography tells how the poet formed a taste for ambiguity and indirection.

How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.

2008's "Burn After Reading" strikingly resembles the bumbling plot of Trump's Russia scandal, but also captures how amorality leads to treason.

The novels "Sex and Rage" and "Weetzie Bat" shine a light on the City of Angels.

How to tell the difference between liberalism and something else.

Luc Besson’s latest is a pyrotechnic extravaganza that is light on the human element.