One of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read in the past year is Noam Scheiber’s “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class.” Scheiber presents a series of incisively reported profiles of young people who did everything they were…

The incumbent Democratic senator Gary Peters declined to run for reëlection, opening up a seat in a state that President Donald Trump carried by less than two points in the 2024 Presidential election. On the Democratic side, the race is between the U.S. representative…

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Inaction in action.

Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

The recent release of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has turned just about every film critic in America into a classicist, and vice versa. I’m guilty, too, though I plead extenuating circumstances—namely, the unavoidable fact that, despite the scale of…

Most musician bio-pics rely on a familiar trope: a troubled kid—wildly talented, terribly traumatized—hopes to make something of himself before the world swallows him whole. Think Ray Charles in “Ray,” climbing out of poverty after losing his sight. Or Johnny…

The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.”

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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.

Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

Max Miller’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of Ohio’s senior senator—is testing the Republican Party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.

No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows.

The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime.

A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.

He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both.

Sixty years ago, an Oklahoma housewife became evangelically devoted to the belief that powerful and obscure forces had suppressed the full story of J.F.K.’s assassination, providing a preview of a contemporary archetype.

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Honesty isn’t always the best policy.