How the division of labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.

When newspapers skimp on local coverage, who will hold lawmakers accountable?

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.

Sir Winston has suffered far less from his critics than from his hagiographers. I have one in particular in mind.

Denis Villeneuve’s film makes the complex world of “Dune” comprehensible through stunning visuals.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.

He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

The superrich gain most from a top-heavy economy. But it’s the class of meritocrats just beneath them who justify the system.

“Something New Under the Sun” is science fiction about celebrity, self-deception, and climate crisis, set in the very near future.

Amia Srinivasan’s book “The Right to Sex” asks difficult questions about who is deemed attractive and who isn’t.

The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

Why do we praise even the most futile efforts to meet opponents halfway?

The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.