Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is such a film—one that proclaims its ambition by the events and themes that it takes on, ...

Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s ...

Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medalist, is the author-illustrator of the picture books “I Want My Hat Back,” “This Is Not My Hat” and “We Found a Hat.” His first original solo board books — “Your Island,” ...

Collectors with a love of medical history are bidding up the price of arcane texts; ‘I don’t need a car, but I certainly need a copy of Vesalius.’ ...