Sir Winston has suffered far less from his critics than from his hagiographers. I have one in particular in mind.

Denis Villeneuve’s film makes the complex world of “Dune” comprehensible through stunning visuals.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

The perils of turning the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade into a political symbol

For years, his work has been marked by his creeping fear that the world is in need of an urgent intervention—and why not from him?

2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.

He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

Mark McGurl’s new book defines a frightening new era of literature, honed to Jeff Bezos’s algorithm.

The superrich gain most from a top-heavy economy. But it’s the class of meritocrats just beneath them who justify the system.

“Something New Under the Sun” is science fiction about celebrity, self-deception, and climate crisis, set in the very near future.

Amia Srinivasan’s book “The Right to Sex” asks difficult questions about who is deemed attractive and who isn’t.

For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, “Maurice.” Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear.

He has always dealt in big ideas. Can he do emotion?

The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

Why do we praise even the most futile efforts to meet opponents halfway?

The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?

His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.