In theory, 'The Bride' should be one of the most exciting films of 2026. However, its brand of radical feminism feels ...

The constitutional system creates an invitation to struggle. Now, as the U.S. wages war on Iran, Congress must decide whether it wants to struggle, as it did during the Vietnam War, or remain ...

Anyone paying serious attention to the Academy Awards knows that – despite the hype and pretension – Oscars don’t always land ...

Anyone paying serious attention to the Academy Awards knows that – despite the hype and pretension – Oscars don’t always land in the right hands. Rather, variables as diverse as marketing and politics ...

The final film I saw was, by far, the standout of the festival. Sundance has built a reputation for launching powerful documentaries, and this year Poh Is Teng’s American Doctor proved triumphant. The ...

Modern newswriting still runs on conventions engineered for the telegraph—speed first, cut from the bottom, clarity through simplification—yet it is tasked with narrating wars that demand history and ...

In the post-COVID landscape, where theatrical attendance has changed dramatically, Dwayne Johnson's once-guaranteed success ...

In case we don’t get the point, Orlean (author of 'The Orchard Thief' and 'The Library Book'), reminds us numerous times that she falls into one of two categories ...

Early on in her new memoir, Joyride, Susan Orlean, a staff writer for The New Yorker, describes her approach to writing: “I became a writer because I wanted to describe the people and places around me ...

A lot of this optimism appeared to have dissipated by the time the two sides held another round of talks on Feb. 26. While mediator Oman’s negotiators continued to talk of progress, the U.S. side was ...

Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two countries’ nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action. A ...