In Pablo Larraín’s dreamlike movie, Diana is not the people’s princess but a woman in search of herself.

How the division of labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

TNR editor Michael Tomasky talks with the music-business impresario about the impact that artists have on politics.

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new history of humanity looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

In a new essay collection, the critic and novelist questions how much art can do to ease injustice.

A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s beguiling new film about love, cinema, and Ingmar Bergman oscillates gently between fantasy and realism.

“Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College” digs into the college years of novelists Donna Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, and Bret Easton Ellis. Do its revelations have any literary value?

When newspapers skimp on local coverage, who will hold lawmakers accountable?

Set at an upscale midcentury magazine, the new movie is an ode to print and a slice of escapism.

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.

As Logan and Kendall go to war, it’s impossible to tell good intentions from cynicism and hypocrisy.

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

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

His new book refuses to recognize that the court is political.

The Raiders coach’s racist, sexist, and homophobic emails should prompt a deeper reckoning for the league.

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