In the dangerous and secretive world of Phase I clinical trials, black men bear the greatest risks.

The latest series from Michaela Coel captures the contradictions of trying to make art in an age of corporate dominance.

“The Room Where It Happened” is a powerful indictment of Trump—and of its author.

The movement has resisted an anthem. Instead, it has redefined protest music.

Why her new novel, “Death in Her Hands,” strives to be gross

A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.

The idea that programs must be funded by tax dollars is a myth. Stephanie Kelton’s new book explains how money really works.

A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?

The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.

The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.

The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

Josephine Decker’s film “Shirley” turns a writer’s life and friendships into a gripping psychodrama.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.