The best stories in It Will Come Back to You could only take place in a big city, where women escape social conventions.

Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.

The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is gently eerie and filled with longing.

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?

As a new biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment, but it has many gaps.

In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

AMC’s TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is an all-consuming spectacle.

Both shows tell the truth about what it means to grow up in an often inhospitable world.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s radical parents were committed to fighting injustice. But what did they owe their young son?

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

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

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

Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin is a study of the hedonism and cynicism of Putin’s inner circle.

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

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

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

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

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.