The space rom-com with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum doesn’t know what it wants to be.

“Blue Ruin” is a sharp novel about art, authenticity, success, and disaster.

From looted artifacts to rogue employees, a series of crises have beset some of the world’s most visited collections.

The case of Anna O. showed that psychoanalysis worked. Did Freud tamper with it?

Catherine Breillat’s provocative new film is like a watercolor dabbed with cyanide.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

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

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

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

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.

Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.

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.

Three decades since his death, Haring’s writhing images are as popular as ever. That was always the point.

New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

Why have attacks on gender expression proven such a powerful tool for authoritarians?

The new FX series is not an attempt to make a “new” Game of Thrones or a “new” Mad Men or even a “new” Shōgun.

Has tech plunged culture into an era devoid of originality and surprise?