In nurse romances written under a pseudonym, Howe began working through the questions that would sustain and bewilder her.

Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.

It is no wonder the interceptors fail in the film. This is an accurate portrayal of what is likely to happen in a crisis.

The Hungarian author’s intricate and complex style has aggravated some and deterred many. Until now.

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the possibility of change.

All the Way to the River taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from the transcendentalists to the Beats.

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows four friends through personal and political upheavals.

What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Your enjoyment of The Lowdown may hinge on whether you find Hawke irreplaceable or irritating.

Trump has always cared about traditional talk shows, even if they are a waning genre.

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

In his filmmaking, manipulation and a bit of deceit have always been essential to uncovering a deeper truth. 

Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames argues that landlords—driven by financialization and the development of insurance “brownlining” in the 1960s and 1970s—are largely to blame.

A new book on the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz focuses on music that was sanctioned by the SS and used for sadistic purposes.

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.

His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.