When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted corporate profits

His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.

Park Chan-wook’s new miniseries on HBO takes American imperialism to task.

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.

​The Jewish studies professor S​haul Magid thinks it’s possible to resist Zionism without rejecting the state. He calls this “counter-Zionism.”

In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new movie, an isolated community faces an existential threat and the fragility of its own defense mechanisms.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status.

Three decades since his death, Haring’s writhing images are as popular as ever. That was always the point.

Luca Guadagnino’s film starring Zendaya specializes in violent and gorgeous emotional devastation.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” sparked a revolution in end-of-life care. But soon she began to deny mortality altogether.

New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system.

Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.

Alex Garland’s film is a fascinatingly empty meditation on journalism and our political divides.

Two new books show how a frayed social safety net is leaving more and more people alone and vulnerable.