French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side.

Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home.

Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem?

“The Renoir Girls,” “Little Blue Dot,” “Air,” and “I Want You to Be Happy.”

Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.

In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?

Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses.

The director of “I Want Your Sex” discusses whether Gen Z is having enough of it, casting Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville, and the importance of “weird, scary, confusing experiences.”

During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere.

Our staffers on good books for America’s big birthday.

The author and illustrator of “I Want My Hat Back” understands how children see.

Vasily Grossman was an out-of-shape novelist writing for a propaganda machine during the deadliest conflict in history. Somehow, he remade what war reporting could be.