Jo Livingstone

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His new novel, "The Sparsholt Affair," affirms the novelist as a master chronicler of England past and present.

A conversation about the language the media uses for people at the intersection of sex work and politics

The reboot of the "Tomb Raider" franchise sheds the original movie's camp, but its main character is more recognizably human.

Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.

Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the children's classic dazzles, but feels a little empty.

On espionage, Russian stereotypes, and the impermeable coiffures of “Red Sparrow”

Raoul Peck's new biopic of Marx and Engels in their salad days is a tedious shambles.

The protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi's autofiction is a font of different voices, some of whom hail from the spirit world.

Natalie Portman journeys into an strange substance known as the Shimmer—and stumbles on a new understanding of the human heart.

Sandra Allen’s “A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise,” which incorporates a memoir of mental illness, is a breakthrough in meta-biographical writing.

Six writers discuss the so-called generational divide in the #MeToo movement

Clint Eastwood’s latest stars a trio of Americans who foiled an attack on a train—playing themselves.

A reboot season of the makeover show is now on Netflix. But has it changed enough to say anything new?

On the left and the right, commentators are playing fast and loose with references to totalitarianism.

The original movie, as well as its elaborate marketing campaign, were steeped in mystery. What happened?

A new miniseries about the 1993 standoff seems tailor-made for audiences that sympathize with the anti-government fringe.