New books on Margaret Thatcher’s and David Cameron’s governments betray a fatal lack of self-reflection.

The unclassifiable writer and translator's collected nonfiction shows us a brilliant mind at work.

Jedediah Purdy’s book “This Land” argues for a radical environmentalism.

WeWork's Adam Neumann and the great game of asset immolation

It would be easy to make fun of “Dickinson.” But the new Apple TV+ show is stranger and more charming than it has any right to be.

An interview with Andrea Long Chu on her new book "Females."

In Alma Har'el's film, Shia LeBeouf mines his own life—and reminds us how gifted an actor he is.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book explains how government policy and the real estate industry worked against black homeowners.

His new book and “His Dark Materials” on HBO dramatize the difficulty of moral action.

Unruly and unorthodox (and occasionally uneven), this year's Booker winner grapples with black identity.

Why do they hate us?

A new exhibition harks back to a time when an author could sell books and be a total recluse.

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

Are his principles for a just society enough today?

A new collection of essays perfectly evokes the excitement and the anguish of young creative people in New York.

Kathryn Hahn plays a different kind of empty-nester in HBO's newest offering.

The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.

The word is used to describe disposable plastic diapers as well as the most ambitious climate legislation ever proposed. So what good is it?

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers