Sofia Coppola’s Elvis is an insecure jock, a rudderless pretty boy with more charisma than talent.

Julian Fellowes’s ode to nineteenth-century wealth has decided it has a story to tell about organized labor.

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America

Its president ignored the warning signs about declining enrollment. Now WVU is deeply in debt, in thrall to market-worshipping consultants, and cutting a shocking number of programs and faculty.

Scorsese’s film is a benchmark in how popular culture understands the American West and the Indigenous experience.

The HBO docuseries follows recruits as they face hazing from their bosses, mistrust in the community, and a legacy of dispossession.

C Pam Zhang’s novel “Land of Milk and Honey” imagines eating and surviving when climate change has decimated food supplies.

In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.

The leading choreographer kept art and politics remarkably separate until the invasion of his home country.

“People think, ‘Oh, it’s just snapping pictures of yourself; it’s very easy to generate attention.’ It’s actually very hard.”

The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.

Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix show is an exhausting mashup. Even worse, it’s not scary.

A group of online sleuths tried to help the government—despite roadblocks at every stage.

The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.

Michael Doyle’s new book lays out how to avoid conflict with China and Russia.

Her precise, thrilling essays on public life do battle with conventional wisdom.

The FX show could have been a near-perfect hangout sitcom. It did something much more interesting.