Is “Infinity Pool” too Cronenbergian?

The popular YouTuber released a new video giving 1,000 blind people cataract surgery to restore their vision. Access to life-changing procedures like this shouldn’t be dependent on the goodwill of others.

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

Derek Guy, @dieworkwear, doesn’t know why he’s suddenly on so many people’s timelines. But he would like to talk to you about how to dress well and sustainably.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

The former longtime editor of The Nation, who died on Monday, opened up unimaginable worlds to countless journalists like me.

A new book traces Chekhov’s relentless work as both a doctor and a master of the short story.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

Not many people bought her books, but nearly everyone who did wrote their own.

His poetry was a bridge from feeling to fact, sense to senselessness, and from the possible to the impossible.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

Dr. Dre slammed the Georgia representative, saying he’d never give permission for a politician as “divisive and hateful” as her to use his music.

A new biography traces Rhys’s life of self-sabotage, excess, and devotion to art.

A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.

The league has historically quickly brushed aside tragedies and catastrophic injuries. The Bills’ safety’s shocking cardiac arrest is different.

Here are the in-depth stories our editors and readers alike loved this year.

The Qatar World Cup never should have happened. But there are signs that the world is finally waking up to the corrupt arrangements that brought it about.

The Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel makes a thoroughly American spectacle of suffering.

How the consulting firm’s cost-cutting logic devoured America