Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
To be naked is to give up obsessive self-presentation and take off the mask.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.