How do you let others influence you while retaining your own ideas? Four literary critics tried to find out.

No, it's not that beloved musical, but director Ladj Ly's Oscar-nominated look at police violence nevertheless feels familiar.

Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.

Eastman was a women’s suffragist, labor reformer, and founder of the ACLU, but her work never quite took center stage.

A new biography—and a reissued collection of short fiction—resurrects a writer who deserves a closer look.

Addressing inequality requires more than consciousness raising.

Ada Calhoun diagnoses the forgotten generation's fortysomething crisis.

A new book explains how finance took over the U.S. economy, disempowered workers, and undermined democracy.

Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel is a triumph of Jo-ness.

Tom Hooper's film is as absurd as the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but at least it's given us something new to talk about.

The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read.

Clint Eastwood turns the saga of the Atlanta bombing suspect into a cautionary tale for an already paranoid age.

When the women of Fox News rise up against Roger Ailes, who are they fighting for?

Two recent works offer a fresh look at the legendary choreographer.

How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism

The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.

Family Record purports to be the story of the French writer's life—but that story remains as elusive as ever.

“A Hidden Life” is a strangely simplistic movie about good and evil.

The Netflix show’s third season is a wonder of restraint.