Laura Dickerman almost went into publishing. After college she worked as an intern at the Paris Review, got a graduate degree in fiction, and took on a few jobs in the industry before quitting to ...

CHINA’S RULING Communist Party will hold a giant conclave to review the country’s next five-year plan from October 20th-23rd. That plan will span the rest of the decade and shape decision-making for ...

Into the Groove is Justin Lewis’s follow-up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music, in which he traced 40 years of pop history by offering bite-sized facts for every day from January 1st to December 31st, ...

Thompson's widow requested the review into his death at his home in Woody Creek, near Aspen, in 2005 from an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Admit it. Part of you wants the Broadway musical version of “The Notebook” to feature a chorus line of singing, high-kicking dancing, larger-than-life notebooks, maybe doing duets with gigantic ...

Jeff Roche’s The Conservative Frontier is a quietly convincing account of how the “cowboy conservatism” of West Texas, with its evangelical ...

For a third year in a row, Florida was rated No. 1 in the nation for book bans. Free speech group PEN America recorded more than 2,300 instances of book bans during the 2024-25 school year. This ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...

Journalist John J. Lennon’s debut book “The Tragedy of True Crime” follows four men who have killed, Lennon included, as they navigate life on the inside.

The Most” is a powerful novel about a woman who “risks” her marriage by refusing to leave the pool for the whole day.

It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book. There's no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest ...