A conversation with the author about his novel “The Light At the End of the World,” and catastrophe, conspiracy, and mythmaking in fiction.

Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it?

Rebecca May Johnson seeks to restore cooking to its rightful place as a form of knowledge, expressing pleasure, desire, and resistance.

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.

How conservatives built a formidable network for ginning up scandal in higher education

“Kairos” is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.

From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism

“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.

A sociologist spoke with 50 gun sellers about 2020’s dramatic uptick in firearms sales and its effects.

“Arrangements in Blue” and “A Life of One’s Own” work through the puzzles of single life through art and music.

Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.

What do politicos turned authors know that we don’t?

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 battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.

In magisterial books and sharp essays—many of them for The New Republic—Steel, who died recently at 92, became one of the most vital foreign policy voices of his age.

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

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

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