Not Bob Dylan, that's for sure.

Reports from the frontiers of sexual experimentation.

Anonymity allowed Elena Ferrante to make art in a misogynistic world. A male journalist took that away from her.

There's no good reason to make a best-selling author the subject of "investigative journalism."

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is speaking out—and what it means for the battles ahead.

For a writer to deny that fiction is political is not only an act of bad faith, but an artistic failure.

Was the Constitution designed to make the United States less democratic?

‘The Bestseller Code’ reveals the well-known secrets of the formulaic novel.

An interview with the poet Max Ritvo about illness, improvisation, and his first book, published posthumously next week.

Notes toward a theory of Nell Zink.

Underrated for most of her life, the author of "The Lottery" is at last experiencing a revival.

A new book outlines an epidemic of over-diagnosis and addiction.

Alice Kaplan’s new book, "Looking for 'The Stranger,'" explores Albert Camus’s fraught relationship with his Algerian homeland.

What Marx means in a world that has made peace with capitalism.

In James Gleick’s new book, humans invented time travel to counter the regret that we only have one life to live.