A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?

The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.

The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.

The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

Josephine Decker’s film “Shirley” turns a writer’s life and friendships into a gripping psychodrama.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.

Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation

The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

The lockdown has produced a disparity between the old script of grievance and a sickness that can wreak destruction on anyone.