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In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's historical drama, "The Samurai and the Prisoner," a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress yields even more confounding questions about faith, war, and leadership.

Steven Pruitt has made more than six million edits to Wikipedia. Here's what his life looks like beyond the screen.

Ode to a sitting senator.

When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp.

Elizabeth Meriwether's new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny.

The author of "Motherhood" answers our questions about her reading habits.

Trump's Cabinet has joined TikTok--and it's not great. Brady Brickner-Wood examines the content so far.

The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him.