Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.

How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty?

In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision.

The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.

Why is Léon Krier defending anew the work of the Third Reich’s master builder?

Ralph Lemon’s Come Home Charley Patton

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight