After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.

Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

‘It comes from within the American experience; it is a force without direction, a desire without a clear objective.’ Thomas Meaney on the American Berserk.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

‘The author claims that “bodies / don’t bury themselves” / but the late ’90s taught me / otherwise.' A poem by Michael Robbins.

The flexible train ticket is rebranding itself as the Interrail Pass. For many travelers, the old name evokes a bygone era of freewheeling European travel.

The work of literary critic Mark Edmundson offers a powerful vision for recentering the American university.

In her new poetry collection, “Tree of Knowledge,” mortality, home, and history are connected at the root.

Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.

What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation.

The party’s silence shows how broadly male supremacist thinking has seeped into the conventional wisdom of political strategists

The movement was better at critiquing the system than reshaping it. But it has never had this much mainstream political power.

You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American one is another story (consider...

There are two new themes (and they're both super cute).

Excited to share this classic episode from the archives with one of the great short storytellers of our time, Ted Chiang. This conversation happened in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio in P...

It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

When Didion declared ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live,’ she meant that we lie to ourselves all the time....

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Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

What began as a Gen Z-led social media movement against the lavish lifestyles of “Nepo Kids” led to the ousting of a Prime Minister and the deadliest social unrest Nepal has seen in decades.