Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.

Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.

The show’s final episodes reject the cynicism and exhaustion of our moment.

Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.

Jess Row’s novel explores the aftermath of a young activist’s death.

Why memoirs of sickness and elusive diagnosis increasingly read like detective stories

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The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.

“The Wager” is a story of resentment, insurrection, and a battle over the truth. Sound familiar?

A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.

Jeff Sharlet saw close up how the far right has used grief and bitterness to grow its ranks.

A former dancer reckons with the rigors and ordeals of life in ballet.

What makes a mother stay and her estranged daughter leave Appalachia?

The odds are stacked against Michelle Williams in the new film “Showing Up.”

Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers” traces how conspiracy theories went from being a fringe pastime to the right’s defining feature.

The Foreign Policy Association tried to get ordinary people involved in foreign affairs. Why did they fail?

“Nights of Plague” is the story of an epidemic entwined with nationalism, unrest, and reaction.

Erica Berry’s book dissects the cultural fascination with wolves as symbols of everything that terrifies us.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway explain how industry groups foisted free-market fundamentalism on the American public and demonized the alternatives.