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Short reviews of recent releases.

America's everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores. Then they learned how to protect them.

The city as a blank canvas.

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what's lost when polemic takes the place of history.

A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the back-to-the-landers movement alive.

The Costume Institute's decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist.

In "The Uprising," Paul Greengrass's dramatization of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight each other to a draw.

In his new memoir, "The Perilous Fight," the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it's become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier.