What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Your enjoyment of The Lowdown may hinge on whether you find Hawke irreplaceable or irritating.

Trump has always cared about traditional talk shows, even if they are a waning genre.

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

In his filmmaking, manipulation and a bit of deceit have always been essential to uncovering a deeper truth. 

Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames argues that landlords—driven by financialization and the development of insurance “brownlining” in the 1960s and 1970s—are largely to blame.

A new book on the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz focuses on music that was sanctioned by the SS and used for sadistic purposes.

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.

His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.

The new sequel declines to stick it to a music industry beholden to algorithms and fanatical stans.

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.

In the wake of the forever wars, the U.S. military has largely looked the other way while criminality and violence pervade its largest base.

The beloved author’s memoir recounts her relationship with the eccentric, abusive, protofeminist Mrs. Roy.

Denzel Washington delights as usual in an uneven thriller based on a classic Kurosawa film.

Will There Ever Be Another You is a lyrical, chaotic journal of holy and profane dispatches from our grief-soaked timeline.

A new animated series by the creator of BoJack Horseman escapes the familiar structures of the genre for something wilder and more discomfiting.

By restricting circulation of his work and cultivating an intimate yet prominent group of friends who championed it, the “poet of Alexandria” helped ensure his stature would only grow after his death.

Witty energy and zingy one-liners can’t quite keep Ethan Coen’s neo-noir caper together.