How a style steeped in American elitism took over the world

From the beginning of her career to the end, she refused to cave in to the machinery of fame.

Brennan rarely wrote of her parents’ part in the struggle for an independent Ireland, but this early experience runs through her stories of marriage and home life.

The year that Europe went to the barricades changed the world. But it has not left the same impression on the public imagination as 1789 or 1917.

The climate crisis arrives suddenly and overwhelmingly in Christian Petzold’s seaside drama.

In a white supremacist society, the Black family offers a buffer and, at times, a space for resistance.

In “Crook Manifesto,” everything is a racket—even history.

Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

“Justified: City Primeval” questions a lawman’s anger.

A spate of documentaries produced by athletes and leagues are more interested in settling scores than in the game.

At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster captures the scientific triumphs and monstrous sins of the Manhattan Project.

Greta Gerwig’s movie attempts to combine the magic of Barbie Land with a critique of the patriarchy.

“Shy” starts out like a story about how trauma begets dysfunction. It’s much more complicated than that.

The Czech author, who died this week at 94, warned against the marginalization of literature and fought for its future.

A conversation with the author about his novel “The Light At the End of the World,” and catastrophe, conspiracy, and mythmaking in fiction.

Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it?

Rebecca May Johnson seeks to restore cooking to its rightful place as a form of knowledge, expressing pleasure, desire, and resistance.

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.

The FX show is a raucous, romantic meditation on what it means to teach and to be taught.