The diaries changed Che Guevara’s image from toughened fighter to sensitive, less certain young man.

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

“Blue Ruin” is a sharp novel about art, authenticity, success, and disaster.

From looted artifacts to rogue employees, a series of crises have beset some of the world’s most visited collections.

The case of Anna O. showed that psychoanalysis worked. Did Freud tamper with it?

The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.

The South Carolina state superintendent of education is about to gut school libraries.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

Lucy Grealy’s 1994 bestseller has become part of a larger story of literary friendship and the boundaries between artists and their work.

Sure, “The Sopranos” is art, but “Real Housewives”?

Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Last Saturday’s event in Ron DeSantis’s Florida with Lauren Groff and Jodi Picoult struck a blow for free expression.

Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?

“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.

The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?

How a spoof conspiracy theory became a perfect study of how misinformation spreads

When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted corporate profits

His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.