For years, the "indie queen” has had trouble finding satisfying work in Hollywood’s shifting landscape. Then, along came “The White Lotus.”

She has been called “cougar,” “Mrs. Robinson” and “your mom.” Now she’s the protagonist, and one of film and television’s most compelling characters.

One December morning, a millennial critic awoke to discover that she had been begrudgingly charmed by an onslaught of Hallmark and Netflix holiday films.

The culture-wide search for doubles of famous men is an election-season gift: an apolitical democratic event where — for a brief moment — everybody wins.

In “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem,” Rob Sheffield chronicles how Taylor Swift has made fans, foes and even journalists part of her story.

The teenage bassist of the Runaways cut her music career short in 1977. Rather than retell her story, she’s reimagined it as a board game,...

Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.

She’s plotting a farewell tour. She’s starring in a documentary about her life. And she’s got nothing left to prove.

The two Irish singers interacted like siblings, speaking of each other warmly, but needling each other, too.

For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a...