Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.

Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin is a study of the hedonism and cynicism of Putin’s inner circle.

Can soccer still unite people across borders, class, and cultures in an increasingly authoritarian world?

In John Carney’s movies, music connects people where conversation cannot. But in his latest, it opens a wound.

Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes.

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

In her memoir Ghost Stories, grief is a form of knowledge—anguished and fragmentary, but knowledge nonetheless.

The appeal of marriage is waning in an age of supercharged misogyny.

There may be a day again when TV executives have the backbone to support a show like Colbert’s. But The Late Show will be gone.

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. The legacy of its author, Shere Hite, is everywhere.

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.

A conversation with Ron Rosenbaum about what makes Dylan so unique.

A conversation with Jasper Craven about military education, abuse, and the uses of religion as a form of control.

In scrutinizing our relationship with the natural world, his classic works helped us to better understand ourselves.

London Falling investigates the mysterious death of Zac Brettler—and captures the austerity-ravaged state of Britain.

Her characters grapple with mean, stubborn, and lonely parents, and work out how to grow old without turning into them.

In the 2006 movie, a ruthless fashion world ground down young ambitious women. The sequel is kinder, more human—and less confident.