I find Dave Chappelle’s concept of empathy for transgender people worth considering — both for what it includes and misses.

Frank Herbert’s beloved novel has enough material that should preclude the kind of dead space that inhabits so much of this “Dune.”

These shows shine an intimate, even glaring light on humanity in its less flattering manifestations.

Brandi Carlile's latest album shows the singer's keen awareness of the radical nature of tenderness.

Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation's great Catholic writer?

I am not a fan of billionaire space flights. But then I watched Mr. Shatner weep like he had seen the face of God when he got back to Earth.