A recent story shows it’s a racket. Because it’s taxpayer-funded through Medicare, it shouldn’t be too hard to end it.

Set at an upscale midcentury magazine, the new movie is an ode to print and a slice of escapism.

The governor of New York resigned as his lawyer, Rita Glavin, stood in defense. A shield of women enforcers, it turns out, was his strategy until the very end.

The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.

Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong?

The United States has two speeds when it comes to older people: sycophancy for the powerful, contempt for everyone else.

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now

How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine

His new book lacks a fundamental understanding of political-economic power.

The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels

Infatuated by his own greatness, the former 'Commentary' editor's memoir reveals the price of success.

Literary saint or arrogant fraud—why do we need Thoreau to be one or the other?

Chloë Sevigny, Patti Smith, and Kim Gordon get it

On language and class at the copy desk

How to assess the promising, posthumous work of a 22-year-old