Sure, “The Sopranos” is art, but “Real Housewives”?

The prequel inherited the “Games of Thrones” empire—but doesn’t know quite what to do with it.

Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?

“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.

The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?

When streamers “dump” whole seasons instead of releasing weekly, they strip away some of TV’s most reliable pleasures.

How a spoof conspiracy theory became a perfect study of how misinformation spreads

The neo-noir starring Glen Powell is a departure for Richard Linklater.

When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted corporate profits

His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.

Park Chan-wook’s new miniseries on HBO takes American imperialism to task.

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.

​The Jewish studies professor S​haul Magid thinks it’s possible to resist Zionism without rejecting the state. He calls this “counter-Zionism.”

In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new movie, an isolated community faces an existential threat and the fragility of its own defense mechanisms.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.