An Experiment in Reading Elena Ferrante
How do you let others influence you while retaining your own ideas? Four literary critics tried to find out.
Culture
The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester
Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.
A Clear Menace
Why glass luxe construction is destroying the world
How Crystal Eastman Fought for Equality
Eastman was a women’s suffragist, labor reformer, and founder of the ACLU, but her work never quite took center stage.
Culture War in the Workplace
Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination
Alice Adams’s Afterlife
A new biography—and a reissued collection of short fiction—resurrects a writer who deserves a closer look.
Why Diversity Training Isn’t Enough
Addressing inequality requires more than consciousness raising.
Why We Can’t Sleep Is a Portrait of Gen X at Midlife
Ada Calhoun diagnoses the forgotten generation's fortysomething crisis.
Everyone Wants to Be a Bank
A new book explains how finance took over the U.S. economy, disempowered workers, and undermined democracy.
The Rise of a Hollow Political Catchphrase
Democrats focus on "kitchen-table issues" to avoid being tarnished as overzealous liberals.
The Reinvention of Little Women
Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel is a triumph of Jo-ness.
Cats Got Your Tongue
Tom Hooper's film is as absurd as the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but at least it's given us something new to talk about.
Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read.
The People vs. Richard Jewell
Clint Eastwood turns the saga of the Atlanta bombing suspect into a cautionary tale for an already paranoid age.
The Tangled Politics of Bombshell
When the women of Fox News rise up against Roger Ailes, who are they fighting for?
The World The Economist Made
How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism
Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes
The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.
Patrick Modiano Explains Himself
Family Record purports to be the story of the French writer's life—but that story remains as elusive as ever.
