The unclassifiable writer and translator's collected nonfiction shows us a brilliant mind at work.

Jedediah Purdy’s book “This Land” argues for a radical environmentalism.

It would be easy to make fun of “Dickinson.” But the new Apple TV+ show is stranger and more charming than it has any right to be.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book explains how government policy and the real estate industry worked against black homeowners.

In Alma Har'el's film, Shia LeBeouf mines his own life—and reminds us how gifted an actor he is.

His new book and “His Dark Materials” on HBO dramatize the difficulty of moral action.

Unruly and unorthodox (and occasionally uneven), this year's Booker winner grapples with black identity.

A new exhibition harks back to a time when an author could sell books and be a total recluse.

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

A new collection of essays perfectly evokes the excitement and the anguish of young creative people in New York.

Kathryn Hahn plays a different kind of empty-nester in HBO's newest offering.

On a desolate island, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe slow-dance their way to madness.

The Museum of Modern Art has used an expansive renovation to both reintroduce and celebrate itself.

Love is not "all you need." Far from it.

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.