Denis Villeneuve’s sequel captures the bleakness and the tragedy at the heart of Frank Herbert’s novel

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.

Cord Jefferson’s film starring Jeffrey Wright skewers American publishing—and its main character.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, starring Emma Stone, is his least brutal, least original work to date.

A new illustrated edition of “Entangled Life” shows how extensively we rely on fungi.

Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.

Bradley Cooper’s biopic never really captures Leonard Bernstein’s passion for music.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

For all the messiness of his music, his account of his life in Sonic Youth is conspicuously tidy.

His incoherent attacks on critical race theory are only one part of a much larger plan for counterrevolution.

“The Palestine Laboratory” outlines how Israel sells its “battle-tested,” “field-proven” weapons and spyware to practically anyone, no matter how malevolent.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

It’s a portrayal so undignified that I almost expected ABBA’s “Waterloo” to play over the credits.

Kristoffer Borgli’s surreal comedy probes the benefits and horrors of instant fame.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The new FX show captures fear and confinement better than any on-the-nose pandemic drama.

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

The senator has always wrestled with his conscience—and compromise.

“The Holdovers” is a brilliant study of an all-boys school and the troubled men it produces.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.