The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.

For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.

Honesty isn’t always the best policy.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows.

The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime.

A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.

He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both.

Sixty years ago, a J.F.K.-assassination buff in Oklahoma provided a preview of a contemporary archetype.

The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.

The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.

The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.”

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema.

There’s a story we tell ourselves on social media any time a child of money or fame vaults into public life.