R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

Dylan has been many men. Can we allow him to be merely himself?

CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative, makes use of cellphone videos, CCTV, and pirate radio, turning tech to subversive ends.

The filmmaker’s tale of modern China probes the emotional toll of living through two decades of social upheaval.

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

The new Apple TV+ show about a compromised movie executive is also, more subtly, an ode to a bygone era of prestige TV.

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.

The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power. Here’s how their plan is going so far.

Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.

If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability.

The second and final season of Tony Gilroy’s epic is suspenseful, action-filled—and a timely, unflinching portrayal of the human costs of rebellion.

At the turn of the century, the expatriate novelist visited the U.S. for the first time in decades. He left feeling more estranged from his home country than ever.

In his new film, Shrouds, paranoia seeps into the afterlife.

“Money, Lies, and God” argues that the failed January 6 insurrection didn’t discourage those who want to dismantle the republic. If anything, it emboldened them—and next time, they may succeed.

How a California town destroyed an affordable enclave along its coast

When “Glengarry Glen Ross” premiered in 1984, critics gushed at its supposed critique of rapacious capitalism. But the new production, and changing times, force a reconsideration.

Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye.