What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

The craziest year in publishing industry history just got crazier.

When millennials talk about being burned out, they are pointing to the failures of capitalism.

“Long Live the Post Horn!”—the latest novel by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth—is an acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.

Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s vision for a new civic community

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.

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.