Why James's comments on the NBA's China scandal were so disappointing.

Despite its setting in Nazi Germany, Taika Waititi’s movie never risks actually disturbing its audience.

The new Netflix movie sets Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson on two gloriously, absurdly different paths.

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

How feminist performance artists found a way to express the trauma of sexual violence

Why the best show about power in the Trump era is not a show about politicians.

In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

Bong Joon-ho’s shapeshifting new film is a thriller about global inequality and resentment.

A new documentary cuts through the myths about the Argentinian soccer star.

The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.

To convey the catastrophe of climate change, Amitav Ghosh had to break with realism.

When Trump tweets about "civil war," he's echoing books about race wars and nationalist coups that a violent fringe has long cherished.

Why veneration of Oliver Wendell Holmes is in decline

How can they be so wrong, so often, and yet still exert so much influence on government policy?

In his new book, a Diné poet challenges the perception of a Native community.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

Ryan Murphy’s show about a super-elite high-school election could have made brilliant, cultish television.

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.

The rich fund museums to launder their reputations. Museums exploit identity politics to distract from the shady money funding them. In the art world, it’s all just business as usual.