How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Colonizers once tried to erase indigenous culture. Now they exploit it.

In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.

The great tension in Sontag’s life lay in her enduring desire for reinvention.

The modeling industry has long exploited and abused vulnerable young women. Will they be welcomed in a revived worker movement?

"She Said," a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay silent.

Twenty-five years after the show first aired, its popularity remains as strong—and confounding—as ever.

The HBO show is a study in the corrosive nature of extreme wealth.

Ultra-educated, highly paid, overworked elites are not partners in the struggle to reform an unequal system.

Joaquin Phoenix’s villain is fictional, but he has a life of his own.

The conservative commentariat’s love affair with nootropics

How do you investigate a vast international intrigue in a culture that is overloaded with conspiracy theories?

Her new novel "Inland" is a rollicking, deeply empathetic adventure set in Arizona in the late nineteenth century.

Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" pushes back on the assimilationist myths of Asian American entertainment.

Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?

“On Becoming a God in Central Florida” brilliantly depicts an economy based on scams.

School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?

A new documentary charts the rise and fall of a would-be internet star.

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States