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The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho conjures fateful interconnections among vivid characters living in the grip of military dictatorship.

Legislative body whose name comes from the Latin for "old man": six letters.

Today's theme: A place so nice . . .

The Divine Comedy, the poet's tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches--and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human.

After the rapper's 1979 hit "Christmas Rappin'," his song "The Breaks" was the first rap single to go gold. Now he's embracing the good ole days with a "Legends of Hip-Hop" concert.

Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.

"This was the nature / of her humor."

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex.

The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.