How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

"La Belle Sauvage" expands on the themes first explored in the beloved "His Dark Materials."

Masha Gessen's new book traces the rise of repressive nationalism.

Meredith Hindley's new book tells of the wartime refugee route that inspired a classic.

What saves this highly anticipated documentary from being a workmanlike exercise is the cool customer at its heart.

How did a delicious Scandinavian noir novel go so spectacularly wrong on screen?

Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West star in a satire on pretension and privilege.

The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

John Merriman's new book tells the story of a violent gang in nineteenth-century Paris.

How a poetic form gained new political purpose online in 2017.

The artist's massive new work "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" examines the plight of refugees. But can it change public opinion?

A new movie about the Paris branch of ACT UP is a milestone in HIV/AIDS film.

Instead of asking women to bare their souls yet again, we should be demanding that men take action.

Why we shouldn't reduce her career to a few golden years.

Albert Camus thought "Blood Dark" rivalled the great Russian epics, but it is little known in English.

Pamela Adlon’s "Better Things" has reinvented the family sitcom.

A new biography of the 18th president manages to avoid the pitfalls of what has become a highly lucrative genre.

F. Roger Devlin is the leading voice of far-right gender politics. But he's facing pushback from a new group of white nationalist women.