Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.

In "How to Survive the End of the World," catastrophe is only part of the story. There’s also human resilience—and the ...

This week's poem: "Sonic Warfare II" SONIC WARFARE II And as the engine steers reality— between humanity amity calamity indemnity, solemnity who is weaponizing systems struggle severed savoir in the ...

GlobeDocs and a standout screening at the Somerville Theatre offer an inviting week of documentaries about mortality, justice ...

Ruchira Gupta joins Elizabeth Howard to explore her friendship with Gloria Steinem, the influence of India and Gandhi on Steinem’s activism, and their shared commitment to women’s freedom.

Taken together, Rage is an affecting 60-minute portrait that’s singular in concept yet diverse in content. If less than diverse in instrumentation, well, that’s no complaint: the bassoon’s rarely ...

In her haunting installation "Cemetery of the Nameless," Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the ...

The Huntington Theatre Company’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation finds fresh complexity in Harper Lee’s moral hero, even ...

A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.

A filmmaker’s interest in a laid-off worker draws two couples into an intimate, uneasy tangle of money, power, and desire.

Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, "The Disappearers" turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into ...

In "A Dead White," Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.