“The Day the Clown Cried” has a reputation for being the worst movie ever shot. When I saw it, I was surprised at what I found.

In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.

The latest installment lacks the imaginative strangeness of the earlier films.

Caroline Crampton’s new book studies the fuzzy boundaries between sickness and health.

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

A flack’s new memoir touts his work for dictators and tycoons. But that’s only part of today’s misinformation industry.

“Pursuits of Happiness” teaches the art of rereading and reexamining our own thoughts.

“Parade” turns the novel upside down.

From David Duke to John Gotti, the 1990s transformed the right and laid the groundwork for Trump.

J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light.” The rest of the book outlines an even more troubling vision.

There’s little evidence slouching is unhealthy. So why do Americans believe so firmly in sitting up straight?

“Trap” is an escape-from-the-room thriller as well as a touching exploration of a father-daughter bond.

In 2024, the U.S. faces some of the same challenges in the region that it did in 1954.

Fury not only drives the embittered wife at the heart of “Liars,” it influences the novel’s very form.

Robert and Michelle King’s show fits an enormous story about the fallibility of humankind inside a network procedural.

The uncertain process of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race showed how little power parties wield.

The space rom-com with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum doesn’t know what it wants to be.

A book of intimate interviews reveals how reluctant people are to speak about their true desires.

After news of Munro’s betrayal of her daughter, it’s hard not to see a preoccupation with guilt and secrets in her later work.

Barrett Brown wanted to use the internet to change the world. He ended up writing a remarkable memoir of his life in prison.