The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

The eight-episode second season (critics received six for review) opens exactly where Season 1 ended. After learning the truth about her dad’s involvement in the nuclear holocaust, Lucy sets off ...

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest picks up some big wins from NBR, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro, and Breakthrough ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another continued its roll through the early awards season gauntlet Wednesday, when it was selected the Best Film by the National Board of Review. The group of ...

Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde—Gen. Franco to you and me; Caudillo de España, or chieftain of Spain, to his countrymen—died on Nov. 20, 1975. His death—of natural ...

If you love the Beatles, you definitely want to hear this new “Baby You’re a Rich Man,” from the superb new collection Anthology 4. It’s a six-minute take from May 1967, unheard until now, with the ...

About halfway through “There Is No Antimemetics Division” — the curiously titled, inventively creepy new novel by Sam Hughes, who publishes under an equally curious pen name, “qntm” — we meet the ...

Movies that depict the history of war criminals on trial will almost always be worth making and worth watching. These films are edifying and cathartic in a way that could almost be considered a public ...

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

Following her 2018 breakthrough, By the Way, I Forgive You, Brandi Carlile embraced many roles: Brandi the Underdog, a singer who conquered the mainstream after a decade of hustling; Brandi the ...

Based on the iconic 1986 novel by Stephen King and serving as a prequel to the 2017 and 2019 “It” films, HBO’s “It: Welcome to Derry,” created by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, ...