Three new books trace a century of antiwar activists' visions for a more equal, peaceful world.

How Instagram took us away from 2017

The Amazon Kindle didn’t change books ten years ago, and it won't change them in the next ten years, either.

Why are schools still judged by the results of standardized tests?

How the ideal of a radically equal republic faded after the Civil War

The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

The acquisition of Fox will bring Marvel Comics movies under one roof, further stifling diversity and creativity in Hollywood films.

Glenn Close on the casting couch, the male DNA, and playing it close to the chest

The violent visions of Michael Haneke

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Steven Spielberg casts Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as heroes in a slick drama, despite their complicated ties to power.

Three recent documentaries track the ingenious ways that banned literature, films, and music circulated in the Soviet Union.

Errol Morris searches for a link between a mourning son, the CIA, and LSD.

Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers

The idea that one man brought about the Protestant Reformation obscures a much longer history of dissent.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Her sole short story collection, "The Vanishing Princess," retells folk stories with new female perspectives.

Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals

The show's second season sees the young Queen weigh her public and private roles.