The Director” uses the filmmaking career of G. W. Pabst to map the moral and artistic disintegration of Nazi-occupied Europe.

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He joined the L.A. comedy group the Groundlings, where one of his characters was Pee-wee Herman, a clean-cut man-child with a ...

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were young Israeli Embassy staffers. They were murdered without regard for who they were, ...

How Americans came to mistrust the government. Plus: Donald Trump race-baits South Africa’s leader; and what to watch this summer.

After powering through to the Eastern Conference Finals, New York’s Knickerbockers raised hopes in Game One—then caved to the ...

In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long ...

Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.

Plus: Trump’s Surgeon General nominee and MAHA; and what Israeli officials are privately saying about starvation in Gaza.

The eighth (and perhaps the last) installment in the epochal Tom Cruise vehicle suffers from self-indulgent gravitas, but the ...

The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch’s “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” and Jen Silverman’s ...