Wallace Shawn’s play is about intellectuals grappling with their country’s slide into fascism. Sound familiar?

The director’s latest film, based on three short stories by Alice Munro, confirms his view that women’s lives exist chiefly for melodrama.

With the end of the year in sight, it’s time to catch up on the movies that will be nominated for Academy Awards.

How Stéphane Mallarmé's greatest work was forged from tragedy.

This soaring musical captures the romantic glow of old-school Hollywood while keeping its feet firmly planted in reality.

How she carved a path in comedy and influenced the new generation.

One philosophical meme told the story of this year's major news events.

Donald Trump drowned out nearly every cultural event in 2016. And it’s only going to get worse.

Natalie Portman and director Pablo Larraín have transformed seven days in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy into a raw portrait of grief.

On the pleasures of poetry that deliberately defies our comprehension.

In this remarkable drama, Isabelle Huppert plays a woman who has to remake herself after she loses everything she’s known.

In Paul Verhoven’s ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert takes control as both actress and auteur.

In his near-century of life, Murray confronted race by re-constructing American identity as omni-American—that out of many, we are one.

The troubling history of popular science.

Why was Haiti's revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long?

In a new book of conversations, Haruki Murakami mines the memories of famed conductor Seiji Ozawa for an insider view of orchestra life.