What’s the Purpose of the Bestseller?
‘The Bestseller Code’ reveals the well-known secrets of the formulaic novel.
‘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.
Chaelin Lee—better known as CL—is attempting to become a household name in the U.S. It won't be easy.
Snapchat's new camera-glasses, Spectacles, herald a new cultural form—for better and worse.
Notes toward a theory of Nell Zink.
Ava DuVernay made history with Selma. Now, in two new films, she’s taking on America’s prison system—and tesseracting through the universe.
Underrated for most of her life, the author of "The Lottery" is at last experiencing a revival.
The third season asks its characters: What happens after you’ve changed your life and you’re still not happy?
The thirty-third season is a contest between Millennials and Generation X—but climate change may decide which generation is the fittest.
Mike Belleme traveled through the South asking people one question: “What is your greatest fear or concern?
A new book outlines an epidemic of over-diagnosis and addiction.
The remake of of the remake of Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Seven Samurai,’ loses the thread of its one-clever twist.
Recalling the three black women who gender-integrated the Negro Leagues.
Alice Kaplan’s new book, "Looking for 'The Stranger,'" explores Albert Camus’s fraught relationship with his Algerian homeland.
Two new films cover a pivotal decade in the president’s life, but only one is a complex portrait of his uneasy path through the Ivy League in the 1980s.
Every year, nearly a thousand refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East journey to Idaho to make a new life in America.
Fox's new drama about a woman in Major League Baseball, 'Pitch' aims to tell an uplifting story of female empowerment. But is it realistic?
What Marx means in a world that has made peace with capitalism.