Proving that a dystopia can still be a fun read, Gary Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story is set in the not-too-distant future of New York City, providing many parallels that hit disturbingly ...

The scope of reporting in The Outlaw Ocean is remarkable. Urbina covers a wide swath of oceangoing banditry and mayhem, and delivers his findings in clear, transparent prose that brings this sordid ...

Center officials wrote in a report, titled "Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?" that good-paying jobs have eluded black men because of continuing racial discrimination in the job market and ...

Listening to podcasts on Spotify grew by more than 50 percent in 2019, and true crime is one of the most popular genres, with My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark and Crime ...

It’s important to remember that the reduction of stories to singular talking points is a blunder committed by all sides of the political spectrum and ultimately makes us lose out on the beauty of ...

The upper elites, who are one-twentieth of 1 percent (0.05) of the world’s population, get richer, and the rest of us struggle to get by. More than half of the world’s population lives in semi-poverty ...

In curating this lineup, I selected four films that all share one specific point of commonality: flawed people trying to make it through their day despite the odds being stacked against them. Some ...

In Love Me, a buoy played by Kristen Stewart falls in love with a satellite portrayed by Steven Yeun. That’s not a metaphor; it's actually what happens. Confused? Don’t worry, that is the point. Love ...

Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...

In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society. With the smash success of his plays and novels (The Importance of ...

Capitol Hell is certainly a book that challenges preconceived notions. Do Republicans with their moral grandstanding and fear mongering even have a sense of humor? In this debut novel, they try. Two ...

Montgomery Clift has faded from our cultural landscape so completely that even the most enduring images from some of his most important films aren't of him. Take From Here to Eternity, for example: a ...