Culture

"Blade Runner: 2049" portrays a world that is both more terrifying and duller than the world of the franchise's original.

Nineteenth-century urbanization unleashed the nation's anarchic spirits.

To shave or not to shave? At the start of the twentieth century, a trend away from facial hair reflected dramatic social and economic shifts.

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

After almost 80 years, America is finally rethinking how it screens its favorite movie.

We could have had a very different World Series.

Harvey Weinstein and the history of the male cinematic gaze.

The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.

One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized.

Hollywood in its early days was not the kind of place where powerful men abused their power over women.

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

In Progressive-Era New York, a now-forgotten trend of public bathhouses was introduced in order to cleanse the unwashed masses.