Backlash against an obituary of its late prophet Thomas S. Monson reveals the existential doubts gnawing at the modern church.

Season four of "Black Mirror" examines life as a kind of imprisonment.

In his latest novel, Ismail Kadare examines the line between death and life, and between the individual and the state.

The backlash to the #MeToo movement says requiring consent will dampen the erotic spark. But it can actually help us understand each other better.

Thanks to missteps by Henry Holt, customers have struggled to get their hands on one of the biggest nonfiction sensations in years.

For starters, she has neither policy expertise nor political experience.

Sunday night's awards ceremony showed the promise and pitfalls of Hollywood's new foray into politics.

William Drozdiak's new book charts the tensions that have divided a continent.

Donald Trump made them realize their dumb luck in life. Now what?

A Silicon Valley phenomenon reveals the ugly side of back-to-the-earth, stripped-down lifestyle trends.

How a "Top Chef" judge landed a job overseeing the country's universities

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

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

How Instagram took us away from 2017

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