Jo Livingstone

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A conversation on A. O. Scott's "reassessment" of the filmmaker

Lisa Halliday’s "Asymmetry" presents two worlds in deeply ironic tension.

In his final film, the Iranian director reached the apex of a career devoted to tender contemplation.

Leïla Slimani's Prix Goncourt–winning novel hangs some fine social observations on a thin, sensationalized plot.

Why one of the best sites on the internet is gone for good

The lead singer of The Cranberries, dead at 46, was both very quiet and very loud.

Season four of "Black Mirror" examines life as a kind of imprisonment.

In his latest novel, Ismail Kadare examines the line between death and life, and between the individual and the state.

Sunday night's awards ceremony showed the promise and pitfalls of Hollywood's new foray into politics.

How a "Top Chef" judge landed a job overseeing the country's universities

How Instagram took us away from 2017

The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

Glenn Close on the casting couch, the male DNA, and playing it close to the chest

Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers

Her sole short story collection, "The Vanishing Princess," retells folk stories with new female perspectives.

On Allison Benedikt, Lorin Stein, and the perils of extracting universal principles from fairytale endings

A new biopic of Tonya Harding is both helped and hindered by the Shakespearean stakes of its real-life plot.

Britain's former foreign secretary is devoted to humanitarian advocacy in a world where “the autocrats look strategic.”

A new retrospective at the Met struggles against its claustrophobic setting, but ultimately triumphs.

The New York Times's profile of Tony Hovator shows how rhetoric is fascism's real battleground.