The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

Josephine Decker’s film “Shirley” turns a writer’s life and friendships into a gripping psychodrama.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.

Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation

The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

The lockdown has produced a disparity between the old script of grievance and a sickness that can wreak destruction on anyone.

The Cree artist has broken into mainstream success. His newest painting shows why that may be a problem.

Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.

For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.

The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics