What the new 'Halloween' says about the horror of white womanhood

The latest from America's horror bard finds a fantastical kind of empathy in small-town America.

Linguists are studying how climate-related migration is affecting regional American dialects.

Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?

'Bodyguard' is an emotional rollercoaster of trauma and terror.

The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

A leaked White House memo is an attempt not only to inflame voters, but also to degrade the conversation about gender in public life.

What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal

The author's new novel is a brilliant, spooky meditation on the sins of history.

A new book documents the legislative turmoil that led to the Civil War.

How Anthony Powell chronicled the curiously languid world of the English middle class

Do we control our genetic information, or is it controlling us?

A new collection of far-sighted essays dissects the pathologies of the present moment.

Matthew Weiner’s new show had the potential to reckon with the uses and abuses of the past.

The actor returns to form in "Mandy," a bloody grindhouse thriller that features him at his frenzied best.