Like a string of recent shows and films, Alfonso Cuarón’s new miniseries starring Cate Blanchett flips without warning.

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

“Intermezzo” is Rooney’s most somber novel, more attentive to loss and irreversible change.

Jason Reitman’s movie is an ode to Lorne Michaels, afraid to take even small risks.

In two new books, the rise of recycling is a story of illusory promises, often entwined with disturbing political agendas.

Has TV wealth ever felt this hollow? Have friendships and family on TV ever felt this mutually destructive?

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.

Brian Jordan Alvarez’s show takes young people seriously. And despite that, probably because of that, it is very, very funny, indeed.

Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

Sociologist Jessica Calarco interviewed ten families. She found women working overtime to hold society together.

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

There were multiple visions for the World Trade Center site, from housing to parks. Why was Larry Silverstein set on office space?

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.

Despite its title, “Mourning a Breast” is not about grief—and, really, not even that much about breasts.

The Apple TV series, now in its fourth season, may be the best, least watched show on television.

“The Day the Clown Cried” has a reputation for being the worst movie ever shot. When I saw it, I was surprised at what I found.

In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.

The latest installment lacks the imaginative strangeness of the earlier films.