For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, “Maurice.” Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear.

Capitol Police turned out in force to confront the “Justice for J6” rally. They needn’t have bothered.

TNR editor Michael Tomasky talks with the acclaimed filmmaker about his new project, airing Sunday on PBS.

He has always dealt in big ideas. Can he do emotion?

The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

Why do we praise even the most futile efforts to meet opponents halfway?

The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?

His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

Rather than focus on Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky, the show makes Linda Tripp the key to understanding the tangled and toxic politics of the late 1990s.

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

A new book on Green Bank, West Virginia, falls into some of the worst tropes of writing about rural America.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

The characters in Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You” want you to know they considered alternatives to capitalism.

Bob Ross was the soft-spoken “Happy Painter,” beloved by audiences. When he died, conflict erupted.

His works have been banned and championed, praised and denounced. Love him or hate him, Lawrence is always worth arguing with.

This year’s insane transfer-window period has illuminated the sport’s apocalyptic financial inequities.

In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking, intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing.

Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of the cult classic explores the dangers of making art about pain.