A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart.

St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.

History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

The women of wrestling grapple with their bodies and forge their own destinies.

Adam Bradley's new book makes a rare, convincing argument for the close reading of pop music.

How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.

American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.

In "Goldfish and Concrete" the Dutch author proves that good things come in small packages.

Can Monocle's globalist chic survive in an age of populism?

In "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," the writer examines the injustices of Indian society. But how political should a novel be?

Sofia Coppola's film evolution from the "Virgin Suicides" to a dreamily-stylized Civil War drama.

A new Netflix documentary about the Gawker-Hulk Hogan trial explores the larger forces that have upended the media industry.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

SyFy's new series shows how much potential dystopian TV can have—by fulfilling none of it.

A new show at MoMA celebrates his 150th birthday, and the archive he left behind.

From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.

Danzy Senna's new novel examines the ambivalent privileges of passing.

In "My Cousin Rachel," Weisz plays a mysterious woman seen through the eyes of an innocent young man.

The parenting advice in "The Vanishing American Adult" is deceptively bipartisan.