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

How a California town destroyed an affordable enclave along its coast

Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye.

How endless options became our only option

A new biography considers the young diarist as inspiration and as a person in her own right.

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Millennials confront their own mortality in the new FX show from the creator of New Girl.

How police and the media manufacture surges in crime

Her latest book, Audition, puts the family center stage.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s progressive vision for how to make government great again

The HBO show’s wealthy characters may be villainous, but that doesn’t make their lives any less alluring.

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?