The show takes its time to tell the story of a Palestinian refugee living and hustling and falling in love in Texas.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

Twenty-seven errors, but do they really matter?

Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.

Five years since the pandemic began, the ravages it exposed persist.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.

“Bibliophobia” is the story of an all-consuming, sometimes destructive passion for books and reading.

The Apple TV+ show is middling as a corporate satire but profound as a mystery box.

In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.

The new film, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, is a tender examination of dissatisfaction.

While streaming shows often fall into bloated storytelling, HBO’s latest has the pace and drama of classic television.

Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.

How scholars achieved some of the most consequential intelligence victories of the twentieth century

Efforts to stop the spread of infectious disease have always suffered from a cycle of panic and neglect. Vaccine skepticism in the new administration brings even greater challenges.

The new millennium promised a more peaceful, more stable, and more prosperous world. What happened?

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.