He made thousands of obsessive drawings of butterflies—but do they help us read his novels?

Newly discovered letters give a rare glimpse of how her poetry—and her radical politics—were formed.

Donald Trump has already transformed American culture. Even if he loses the election, Trumpism is here to stay.

In her new book, Nancy Jo Sales explores how teenage girls on social media provoke attention—but fails to show how they also demand respect.

Is America’s democratic system equal to the challenge of an authoritarian president?

The Metropolitan Museum makes a bid for the modern.

A poem

A poem.

It's his country now—we just vote in it.

A poem

Photographer Aliza Eliazarov reclaims discarded food by reimagining it in the style of the 17th-century masters.

The trouble with the Maadana lyre.

How to think about the food we waste.

Rolling through the West in search of the American dream.

The internet has given us a new public square. Now law enforcement is trying to harness its power.

They’re a vestige of an internet utopia that never came to be.

Evolutionary theorist Edward O. Wilson has an ambitious plan to halt ecological ruin.

A native son prepares for his last stand in the state that knows him best.

The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.