The relationship at the heart of a new erotic thriller, starring Nicole Kidman, doesn't explode power struggles; it exists ...

Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne’s iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a ...

In his latest film, the director Brady Corbet depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United ...

As I watched the time-capsule debate, staffers for the Architect of the Capitol were at work on the West Front, building the ...

The evasions and elisions that are inherent to the format—as here, with the cramming of four eventful years into just over ...

A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork.

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Wid Lyman, who tries to document crossings on the southern border, is one of a growing number of citizen journalists who ...

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This year’s standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to ...