Her novels First Love and My Phantoms work a kind of magic, making stuck relationships at once believably maddening and oddly addictive. 

Stanislav Aseyev was abducted by Russian security forces in 2017. The next nearly three years were literally torture. But since February, he’s seen even worse.

In her memoir, the former public editor of The New York Times surveys the ills of the news business.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.

States were meant to be “laboratories of democracy.” Instead, they are pioneering new ways to restrict voting and distort representation.

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

When Elaine Showalter met the author in 2000, she was on the verge of an intellectual breakthrough.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.

An industry insider’s sympathetic account is unintentionally revealing of private equity’s worst features.

The law firm Jones Day was crucial to Trump’s presidency. How much responsibility does the firm bear for his legacy?

How much complexity is lost in a sentence no longer than six words?

The internet demands that women project desirability—at a level formerly reserved for movie stars.

In the 1960s, a British researcher launched one of the largest ever studies of people who believed they could see the future.

“Knocking Myself Up” defies the conventional wisdom that pregnancy and parenthood are exhausting, expensive, and full of drudgery.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Rushdie’s vision of desi identity, unrestrained by colonialism and above the fray of sectarian cant, should inspire us as he recovers from his wounds.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

CJ Hauser’s essay on an ill-fated love went viral. But there’s more than one way to see the story.