The trip hop group’s “Unfinished Sympathy,” which turned 30 years old this pandemic winter, evokes the urban soundscape of a lost era.

Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.

Writing about the experience of illness is a burgeoning genre. What kind of hope can it offer?

“A Promised Land” tells of a country that needed a savior.

On “Fake Accounts” and the problems of millennial fiction

How could someone so telegenic, so witty, and skilled in politics have missed out on higher office?

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology

Dror Moreh’s new documentary is an intimate study of the talks’ top negotiators and what they missed.

From “Fishing With John” to “How to With John Wilson,” the most mesmerizing shows on television are strangely low-key.

A new collection of stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell explores the line between good taste and desire fulfilled.

The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel explores the cruelties of making it big.

A new book sorts through the controversies surrounding Alice Walker’s seminal novel.

In celebrating unsung heroes of history, two new movies overly romanticize the past.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

The show set in a French talent agency is the antidote to superficial satires on Hollywood.

How not to learn about the American past

What if workers channeled their passion into organizing for better pay and conditions instead?

A years-old controversy surrounding the Jones documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” exemplifies the widening gulf between who gets heard online and who doesn’t.

It has taken decades for his Century Cycle plays to reach the screen—but not for lack of interest.