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While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for.

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Jeremy Strong on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile still stings.

During week two of the New York Film Festival, Richard Brody saw what he considers to be one of the best films of both the event and the year.

Russia is escalating its provocations in NATO territory. Poland's foreign minister has a message for the U.S.: “You may have affairs elsewhere, but to us, Europe, you are married.”

A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another in a beauty pageant, fails to grapple with the show’s cruelty, or with the culture that enabled it.

Like other perfect but not extremely famous novels, “Brother of the More Famous Jack” has mostly been passed from people who adore it to people who have never heard of it. Now its author is considering writing a sequel.

In the captivating new Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” only one note rings false: the softening of John Steinbeck’s most evil character, Cathy Ames.