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.

“Rumours” imagines a version of the G7 where world leaders descend into absurdity.

Instead of offering empathy, look at what the right wing does when it seizes power.

Like a string of recent shows and films, Alfonso Cuarón’s new miniseries starring Cate Blanchett flips without warning.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

Sociologist Jessica Calarco interviewed ten families. She found women working overtime to hold society together.

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.

The Apple TV series, now in its fourth season, may be the best, least watched show on television.

In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.

Caroline Crampton’s new book studies the fuzzy boundaries between sickness and health.

A flack’s new memoir touts his work for dictators and tycoons. But that’s only part of today’s misinformation industry.

“Parade” turns the novel upside down.

From David Duke to John Gotti, the 1990s transformed the right and laid the groundwork for Trump.

Robert and Michelle King’s show fits an enormous story about the fallibility of humankind inside a network procedural.

The space rom-com with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum doesn’t know what it wants to be.

“Blue Ruin” is a sharp novel about art, authenticity, success, and disaster.

From looted artifacts to rogue employees, a series of crises have beset some of the world’s most visited collections.