The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

The acquisition of Fox will bring Marvel Comics movies under one roof, further stifling diversity and creativity in Hollywood films.

Glenn Close on the casting couch, the male DNA, and playing it close to the chest

The violent visions of Michael Haneke

Why you should be rewatching the show in the wake of #MeToo

Steven Spielberg casts Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as heroes in a slick drama, despite their complicated ties to power.

Three recent documentaries track the ingenious ways that banned literature, films, and music circulated in the Soviet Union.

Errol Morris searches for a link between a mourning son, the CIA, and LSD.

Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers

The idea that one man brought about the Protestant Reformation obscures a much longer history of dissent.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Her sole short story collection, "The Vanishing Princess," retells folk stories with new female perspectives.

Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals

The show's second season sees the young Queen weigh her public and private roles.

On Allison Benedikt, Lorin Stein, and the perils of extracting universal principles from fairytale endings

A new biopic of Tonya Harding is both helped and hindered by the Shakespearean stakes of its real-life plot.

Can the museum tell a new story about art—and reshape the Gulf's image?

The U.S. funeral industry is the most expensive and corporate in the world. Can Americans find a better way to grieve?

Britain's former foreign secretary is devoted to humanitarian advocacy in a world where “the autocrats look strategic.”

Why policymakers calculate the cost of life and death, sickness and health