Jenny Zhang's new story collection is an elegant and unconventional take on the immigrant story.

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How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.

We discuss “The Queen’s Justice,” the third episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

Perhaps the greatest crime of this widely panned movie is that it thinks emojis are for kids.

The Duplass brothers' new HBO series shows how to do a lot with a little.

Jeremiah Moss's "Vanishing New York" and Tamara Shopsin's "Arbitrary Stupid Goal" look at what gentrification means for the city—and who's to blame.

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Authors and publishers alike are finding that it's hard to sell books in a political climate where truth is stranger than fiction.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory.

Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.

We discuss "Stormborn," the second episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

"An Inconvenient Truth" turned the former vice president into a climate hero. Will he reclaim the mantle with "An Inconvenient Sequel"? Many activists in the environmental movement hope not.

The president has repeatedly identified with this ancient, persecuted figure, just as young marginalized women have started to do the same.

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How Trump is helping to revive the publishing industry.

“The Bold Type” is a reboot of a now-familiar television genre, with an updated politics that doesn’t quite meet its moment.

Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America.

How Angela Carter escaped a puritanical childhood and stifling marriage, and reimagined sexuality.