A violent assault on a famous author revives an ugly history: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

For six years, “Better Call Saul” has given the story equivalent of a graduate-level seminar on morality, and the series finale is both satisfying and surprising.

I decided that the best way to gauge reactions to the film was to gather feedback from none other than my own Filipino-American family.

Until recently, “The Sandman”—Neil Gaiman’s magnum opus about the eternal being who oversees the universe of dreaming—has remained an impossible quest.

People who shut down those with different opinions have a less rich life, and make less rich art.

A new book by David I. Kertzer argues that Pope Pius XII has more responsibility for the Holocaust than previously reported. But is the charge merited?