A new book sorts through the controversies surrounding Alice Walker’s seminal novel.

In celebrating unsung heroes of history, two new movies overly romanticize the past.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

How not to learn about the American past

The show set in a French talent agency is the antidote to superficial satires on Hollywood.

What if workers channeled their passion into organizing for better pay and conditions instead?

A years-old controversy surrounding the Jones documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” exemplifies the widening gulf between who gets heard online and who doesn’t.

We live in a work-obsessed country that, at least according to the film and television we binge, hates work more than anything.

It has taken decades for his Century Cycle plays to reach the screen—but not for lack of interest.

His “Up” series chronicled lives over five decades and revealed profound changes in society.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

A new history traces an anti-democratic politics of hate, repression, paranoia, and revenge to its origins.

Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.

What the troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its future

Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.

Why is one of Turkey’s foremost novelists in jail?

Don DeLillo’s and Jonathan Lethem’s new novels imagine the end of electronic communication.

Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.

The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault.

It undermines equality and the common good.