A hidden history of twentieth-century American modernity that begins in a once-dynamic Black neighborhood in New York City with Thelonious Monk as its guiding star., The Jungles, Thelonious Monk and t...

Coltrane would have turned 100 on Sept. 23. We speak to his son Ravi, also a tenor saxophonist, and we revisit a 1998 interview with Elvin Jones, a drummer who performed and recorded with Coltrane.

Trump claims that the Smithsonian has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise.

Trump claims that the Smithsonian has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise.

Trump claims that the Smithsonian has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance.

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Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.

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The final book in the author’s Harlem Trilogy is out now; read our recommendations from his œuvre.

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

A Northwestern University professor filed a federal lawsuit alleging federal officials pressured the school to deny him tenure.

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In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.