PARTY OF TROLLS

Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.

Why Read Literary Biography?

What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction

Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better

His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.

White Noise Used to Be Satire

What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.

Can a Building Be Too Tall?

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper

The End of Us

Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.

The Prophecy of The Waste Land

One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.

The Reinvention of the Catholic Church

Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.

THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG

THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED

SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU

The question is how.

I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE

To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares

THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS

Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?

Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings

The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy

Good Luck, Mr. Rice

A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment

The Literature of Paranoia

Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.

The Long History of Russian Brutality

What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine

The Trap

What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital

Take a Chance on Them

ABBA makes a triumphant return.

LET PUERTO RICO BE FREE

The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.

THE SCAPEGOAT

A MUSEUM CURATOR WAS FORCED OUT of HER JOB OVER ALLEGATIONS of RACISM THAT AN INVESTIGATION DEEMED UNFOUNDED. WHAT DID HER DEFENESTRATION ACCOMPLISH?

BAD LOSERS

Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.

The Myopia Generation

Why do so many kids need glasses now?

Who Do the Benin Bronzes Belong to?

Thousands of pieces of art were looted by the British in what is now Nigeria, and are held mostly in Western museums. What to do with them is a harder question than it might seem.

The Operator

The journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a knack for inserting himself into the pivotal moments of Ukraine's history. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.

The Wedding Present

As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after the war. I've been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.

JOHN ROBERTS'S LONG GAME

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

The Roots of Republican Extremism

Three new books attempt to trace the GOP's break with reality.

The Diagnosis Trap

Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?

Cursive Is History

My students can't read script. How will they interpret the past?

A World Without White People

Mohsin Hamid's empty parable of race transformation