Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

“Bibliophobia” is the story of an all-consuming, sometimes destructive passion for books and reading.

The Apple TV+ show is middling as a corporate satire but profound as a mystery box.

In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.

At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

Emmanuel Carrère chronicled the trial of the perpetrators of the November 2015 attacks on Paris. It makes a sharp contrast with the United States’ efforts at Guantanamo.

“The Room Next Door” is not quite willing to confront its subject in all its difficulty.

Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

From “What We Do in the Shadows” to “Interior Chinatown,” Waititi has a gift for making defiantly original, rambling, rollicking, freewheeling shows.

“Rejection” is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation.

How politicians used the story of one young patient to neglect the AIDS crisis

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.

Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.

The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestseller about the Troubles is a gutting and grand limited series. But it needed more time to do its subject justice.

Dinaw Mengestu’s novels, layered with crisis and heartbreak, show a different side of the nation’s capital.