The great works of Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola and F.W. Murnau make today's movies look like bags of tricks or boxes of soap.

Bergman meets Hitchcock on Freud's couch in a dazzling, pitch-perfect intellectual thriller from French director Anne Fontaine.

Greek and Roman myths are violent and ugly, sure. But apologizing for art — especially the classics — is a bad idea

In the '80s, Silverstein's books were a frequent target of school library bans. My mom's attempt ended differently

Nope, Democrats can't actually seduce GOP voters with furious flag-waving or maxing out on Mom and apple pie

Clinton's rhetoric has been good, but not sufficient. Why she must go bold in 2016

No one denies that immigration brings change, Tucker — just that it's racist to be angry about it

Wes Anderson's painstakingly realized films have found a devoted audience -- and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" won't disappoint.

Readers respond to Laura Miller's essay on the threat of militant Islam and a review of Mathematica developer Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science."

Author of "The Death of Democracy": Germans in 1933 thought they were "good people" and nothing could go wrong

By David Lehman

Trump's policy welcomes global capital instead of people

A brief history of our poet laureates and why Limón is the perfect person to be appointed now

Einstein & Schrödinger were friends then competitors in hunt for Grand Unified Theory. A media war tore them apart

Readers respond to "Eyes on the Prize" and Anne Lamott's most recent column.