Two recent projects, a jazz concert about the Great Migration and a book about “wayward” young women, ambitiously recontextualize black life and art in early-20th-century America.

Preserving Pacific alliances will require America to step up its commitments.

I’ve never owned the device, and I’m not sure I ever want to.

The late actor mined the many contradictions of romantic love in her work, and never more brilliantly than in A Woman Under the Influence.

What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption

A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.

The author, who has never shied away from criticizing Korean culture, has also given South Korea its first Nobel Prize in Literature.

“Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says.

The late filmmaker’s unconventional spelling was a stylistic choice that signified the forging of an anti-establishment identity in rap music.