Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

From “What We Do in the Shadows” to “Interior Chinatown,” Waititi has a gift for making defiantly original, rambling, rollicking, freewheeling shows.

The Cinta Larga people were sitting on a wealth of diamonds. They didn’t turn to mining until they saw devastation all around them.

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics most admired in 2024

Susie Orbach’s 1978 book is a fascinating snapshot of diet and physical culture in a very different era.

Luca Guadagnino makes William S. Burroughs’s novella a love story that is sordid, pathetic, affecting, and true.

“Rejection” is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation.

How politicians used the story of one young patient to neglect the AIDS crisis

The new prequel on HBO plays like a watered-down “Game of Thrones.”

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.

Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.

The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestseller about the Troubles is a gutting and grand limited series. But it needed more time to do its subject justice.

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges.

“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.