‘Dignity’ is part a long tradition of writers who left their lives of comfort to study squalor and decline,

Woody’s penchant for self-sacrifice is just one of the aspects that has been recycled for “Toy Story 4” and while you would have to be a Grinch to find any faults in the new film, there are a few.

On the Season Two premiere of “Pose,” the FX drama about a group of L.G.B.T. people of color living on the margins of New York City in the 1980s and ’90s, activists are shown protesting inside New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Joe Talbot’s film raises the question: what does it mean to belong to a place?

Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.

I surveyed America editors and staff to get a list of titles they would recommend for a quick summer read—or perhaps lengthy reading project.