To make sense of the film starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, a few spoilers are necessary.

Theroux has used disarming interview techniques on white nationalists, the Westboro Baptist Church, and street gang members. But they don’t work in his new documentary.

The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.

Both Netflix’s Vladimir and HBO’s Rooster play into a politically charged caricature of academia.

First, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and now Ryan Murphy’s Love Story suggest a family that was once Democratic royalty has lost its sheen.

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s post–#Me Too take on The Bride of Frankenstein is both energetic and baffling.

This year’s show was both steeped in nostalgia for what the Oscars used to mean and bristling with ambivalence about the shape of things to come.

Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.

Author William Hartung explains why the United States seems perpetually drawn into conflict.

How the subway shooter and his defenders honed the politics of fear and grievance

This year’s international feature category became a test of what narratives the Academy is willing to recognize.

In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.

Namwali Serpell’s new book embraces the uneasy, unexpected, and defiant elements of her life and work.

Love Story explores the corrosive effects of celebrity.

Malcolm Cowley championed Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey—and elevated the status of American writing.

Her novel Repetition is an attempt to live with the weight of the past.

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery tries to recast a life of privilege in often baffling ways.

Margaret Anderson’s Little Review fought to bring the great works of modernist literature to the United States.

The generative AI series is tailored to a viewer with radically lowered expectations.