The Czech author, who died this week at 94, warned against the marginalization of literature and fought for its future.

A conversation with the author about his novel “The Light At the End of the World,” and catastrophe, conspiracy, and mythmaking in fiction.

Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it?

The movie’s producers are “endangering our national security,” claimed one lawmaker.

Rebecca May Johnson seeks to restore cooking to its rightful place as a form of knowledge, expressing pleasure, desire, and resistance.

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.

The FX show is a raucous, romantic meditation on what it means to teach and to be taught.

How conservatives built a formidable network for ginning up scandal in higher education

A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.

David Zaslav, whose Chris Licht hire butchered CNN, is vandalizing TCM, a beloved cultural institution.

The critics have weighed in. Now it’s your turn.

Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.

Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions

It’s about revolution. Or elections. It can be a thriller. Or a comedy. It’s a movie whose politics we love. It’s a movie whose politics we detest. It’s even, sometimes, a zombie movie.

“Kairos” is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.

From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism

“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.

The Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t know quite what to do with his disturbing rise in politics.

He takes his place with Melville, Faulkner, and Twain in the pantheon.