Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.

Charlottesville reaches into Virginia’s past to trace the currents that led to the violent neo-Nazi rally.

In Things in Nature Merely Grow, the Chinese-American author writes past grief’s clichés.

William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.

It’s also a rollicking not-quite thriller about family, financing, and (broadly) filmmaking itself.

Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States

In the second season of the HBO docu-comedy series, the airline cockpit is the stage for an ambitious investigation into how the roles we choose to play can entrap or liberate.

A psychoanalyst trains her attention on the act of breathing, and it no longer seems quite so simple.

R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

Dylan has been many men. Can we allow him to be merely himself?

CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative, makes use of cellphone videos, CCTV, and pirate radio, turning tech to subversive ends.

The filmmaker’s tale of modern China probes the emotional toll of living through two decades of social upheaval.

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

The new Apple TV+ show about a compromised movie executive is also, more subtly, an ode to a bygone era of prestige TV.

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.