Director George Sikharulidze's many-stranded debut excavates the layers of religiosity and right-wing ideology that make one Georgian teen's coming of age so perilous and conflicted. Courtesy of 20 ...

George Sikharulidze’s feature debut “Panopticon” is, the director says, a very personal movie. The film, screening as a world premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition, is a ...

Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. Those are Justice Antonin Scalia’s words, taken from Monday’s eye-opening dissent in Maryland v. King. The Court, by a vote of five to ...

A year ago, when Jenni Fagan released her first novel in England, "The Panopticon" must have seemed like a dangerously arcane title. The British edition includes a dictionary definition right on the ...