Ismail Muhammad

Garrett Bradley has made a documentary, “Time,” that stubbornly resists all the easy ways of thinking about incarceration in America.

He built his career portraying giants of American history. But it was a fictional character that transformed him into a kind of political figure.

Do Drake’s Melodramas Still Matter? (Published 2021)

In her new essay collection, the writer wants to enunciate all the meanings and manifestations of the word that our current conversation obscures.

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

One of rap’s more confounding artists uses his popularity to assert his humanity.

Decade after decade, waves of migration have remade New York. What kind of city will the latest one create?

A crop of recent novels strains against the expectations of a publishing industry attempting to embrace diversity.

Martin Puchner’s new book is a forceful rebuke to those who argue that culture can be owned by groups, nations, religions or races.

After a celebrated career of making oblique work that refused autobiography, he is making his most personal work yet.

What used to seem like an admission of defeat became a source of strength.

In the essay collection “Dark Days,” Roger Reeves tries to sidestep mainstream arguments to engage deeply with the way people actually live and think.

A video appeared to show Dodger Stadium in ruins. Was it a religious sign, climate disaster or something else entirely?

There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality.

He ​had what must have been the wildly alienating experience of ​being upstaged by a cartoon character.

The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as comforting thrills.

Players love recreating memorable images from basketball’s past.