Inflammatory ‘The Hunt’ Delivers Mere Sparks
Reviled by the Far-Right and pulled from theaters last fall, the new thriller plays it safe while pitting red against blue.
Reviled by the Far-Right and pulled from theaters last fall, the new thriller plays it safe while pitting red against blue.
A new graphic biography may herald a revival of interest in the most perceptive Marxist critic of his time.
A new book explores the legacy of a momentous 1965 debate about race in America.
Though diversity is a driving ethos of this year's event in Los Angeles, the art world is still deeply invested in sidelining people of color.
This year's telecast showed signs of progress—now the Academy Awards producers need to get audiences to tune in again.
It's not just about food, says author Rebecca Lester, but shame and self-negation.
A new biography of the Slovenian journalist reminds us that reviving American democracy will take more than the rise of minority elites.
Essays feature a whale with online followers, families who believe a child led a prior life and Civil War photographers’ staging of corpses.
This year's selections include award-winning essays by Allen Barra and Natasha Hakimi Zapata, as well as a withering critique of Ayn Rand.
In its depiction of the network's culture of sexual abuse, the film fails to grapple with the complexity of its right-wing heroines.
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