Current laws target low-level employees and let the worst offenders off the hook.

Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?

Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length but has far more heft.

“One Billion Americans” is a loosely-informed mishmash of policy, held together by anxieties about American power.

His novel “Red Pill” portrays a liberal’s crisis at the approach of the Trump era.

The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

The radical anthropologist was that rare figure: a scholar who was also an activist.

In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.

Two new books by Jason Diamond and Eula Biss expose the fraught moral dilemmas of living in the ’burbs.

A new book argues that the threat of secession has never left American politics.

Francesca Wade’s book rediscovers the neighborhood that gave Dorothy L. Sayers, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. a place to think and write.

Michael Almereyda’s movie dismantles romantic notions about creativity, invention, and making money.

The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus.

“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.

The comic thriller “Squeeze Me” is set, like Hiaasen’s other books, in Florida—which turns out to make a big difference.

Did distractions, disruptions, and gossip shape Tolstoy’s novel as much as long-simmering ideas about morality and desire?

In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.

From George Washington to Simón Bolívar, magnetic leaders built modern democracies. They also broke them.

The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.