A new film from the director of ‘The Lives of Others’ strives for epic effect as it traces an artist’s development through the twentieth century.

Steve McQueen's crime caper is really a vehicle to explore grief, gender, race, and loneliness.

Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling

Anna Burns's Booker-winning novel takes on teenage girlhood, sectarian violence, and history's nameless actors.

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy

Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War

Heike Geissler's 'Seasonal Associate' is a harrowing novel based on her stint in one of the tech giant's warehouses.

“If Beale Street Could Talk” indicts a world that makes love so difficult.

What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us

How Blair Foster’s documentary “The Clinton Affair” reassesses history in the wake of the MeToo movement

Yorgos Lanthimos's 'The Favourite' is a triumph in naturalistic filmmaking.

A new book examines the lives of expats in Ecuador and their struggle to stay in the middle class.

The FDA's new proposal stirs up an old, complicated debate.

An anthology in six parts, the latest from the Coens features a singing horse, sweeping vistas, and a lot of death.

How do we go about putting democracy back into public education?

In 'My Sister, the Serial Killer,' Oyinkan Braithwaite delivers a sly take on the black widow tale.

The brilliant and controversial writer-editor who guided the Marvel Universe into existence is dead.

What lies beneath the sleek stylings of dystopian shows like "Homecoming"

A new biopic of Marie Colvin raises questions about Hollywood's penchant for turning reporters into heroes.