Space exploration is a rapidly growing industry. But its goal is dominance, not discovery.

The movies, books, paintings, and songs whose impact extended beyond culture to society as a whole

His new book, Communion, sketches out a redemption narrative that is jarringly at odds with his actions.

The early reviews are in, and they’re brutal.

Joseph Osmundson’s “Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood” is an utterly unique contribution to the often predictable genre of infertility and parenting lit.

Musk’s transformation into a hyperactive super-troll reveals essential features of his economic vision.

The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.

The urban professionals who transformed American cities and tastes and pulled the Democratic Party to the right are a dying breed.

Samuel Moyn takes aim at senior citizens hoarding power and wealth. But most are just getting by.

Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.

Can soccer still unite people across borders, class, and cultures in an increasingly authoritarian world?

Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes.

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

In her memoir Ghost Stories, grief is a form of knowledge—anguished and fragmentary, but knowledge nonetheless.

The appeal of marriage is waning in an age of supercharged misogyny.

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

A conversation with Jasper Craven about military education, abuse, and the uses of religion as a form of control.

In scrutinizing our relationship with the natural world, his classic works helped us to better understand ourselves.