The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

For a long stretch of his life, Daddy had two women to nurture him—Mrs. Williams and my mother—but Our Ma had only one ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a ...

In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite ...

The monks of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore have hosted Cosimo de Medici in exile and a papal conclave, but they won’t be ...

I knew no one when I first came to New York, which meant it belonged only to me. Drawing it, I still feel as if I’m taking ...

On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...