The President’s sudden interest in sculpture comes as something of a surprise.

A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.

Aubrey Plaza's new comedy 'Ingrid Goes West' sends up the Instagram influencers living a profitable lie.

Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel about James Earl Ray is exhaustively detailed, but light on reflection.

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?

We discuss “Eastwatch,” the fifth episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

The Safdie brothers' new movie with Robert Pattinson breathes life into a waning genre.

A new study represents a new low for pop psychology.

United by a love of sarcasm, two friends take on a regressive world in the show's third season.

Individuals moving to newly-hip neighborhoods admit they are part of the problem. What can they do?

It turns out the left and the right both want to protect workers—but only for entirely different reasons.

Kathryn Bigelow’s new historical drama shows a director obsessed with the moment of death.

A programmer looks back on her belief, early in her career, that a small machine could help her community.

We discuss “The Spoils of War,” the fourth episode in the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy series.

How the discovery of X-rays and infrared made us doubt the senses.

Conservatives say environmentalists are hypocrites if they consume more energy than the average American. It's a deceitful, disingenuous argument.

"The Incest Diary" is a shocking, highly literary new memoir of child sexual abuse.

A new book proposes Americans should compete against each other for wellbeing—so long as it's a "fair" contest.

Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.