“Manhunt,” a new television miniseries, depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.
Amid worries about what Big Tech is doing to our privacy, politics, and psyches, many stakeholders—from activists to technocrats—are calling for a new rule book.
From opposite directions, the revolutionary intellectual and the creator of James Bond saw violence as essential—psychologically and strategically—to solving the crisis of colonialism.
When I picked up a new biography of the great Polish writer Bruno Schulz, I realized that rumors I’d heard since childhood had a life far beyond my family.
They didn’t mean to become critics; they probably hoped to be better known for that novel. But, when something cuts them to the quick, they need you to know.