A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike rarely confessed or confronted his own.

For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination.

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.

Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.

The story ofhis landmark case reminds us of how powerful a popular front of socialists and liberals can be in protecting our civil liberties.

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

Pages from a novelist’s notebook.

Walker’s new installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers us visions from both the past and future.

From the Navy Yard and Industry City to the recent remaking of Bush Terminal, developers are attempting to remake Brooklyn’s coastline.

Luca Guadagnino’s films have always asked viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex. In his new film, he asks the opposite.

Josh Safdie’s first solo effort, an antic sports movie, revels in a darker side of the American dream.

Has James Cameron’s epic sci-fi series run aground?