Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Should you eat at chain restaurants on vacation? Is soup bar food? Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings join us to resolve your disputes.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Nancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in.

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

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Season 12 Show Highlight: Part I: Andy Cohen tries to make a case for “The Real Housewives” franchise and feminist Gloria Steinem defends her distaste for the show.

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In “Under Story,” a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

How do you get the word out about your book when there are almost no more newspaper reviews?

The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”

As a teen, I didn’t always know how to express myself. A now-forgotten novel helped me find my voice.

In her fourth novel, Sunrise, Téa Obreht mines a legacy of betrayal and brutality in the American West.

Wilson’s bold, often negative review of Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey,” which the director had said was largely based upon her translation, appeared this week in the London Review of Books. Th...

Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker are among the country artists speaking out against data centers in both rural and urban communities.

Claire Vaye Watkins’s “Yellow Pine” is a smart, sexy, surprisingly hopeful novel about the world going to hell.

An old diary entry of mine dated “MAY ????” reads “THIS IS THE YEAR I DEADHEAD.” I wrote this with the declarative energy of a person who wants to change their life. All the various web articles I rea...

Our bevy of brilliant reviews this week includes Lily Meyer on J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Adam Federman on Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night, Lauren Christensen on Julie B…

The new reissue imprint at Doubleday offers a home to groundbreaking and hard-to-pin-down books that have disappeared from shelves.

Yellow Pine’s a contested space: the phrase describes both a poorly-conceived green energy project and the protest camp that pops up to counter its existence. The conflict between the two looms over a...

Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice

Julia is a fifty-something midcareer novelist stuck at a personal and professional crossroads. With a painful first marriage and a lifetime of dysfunctional family traumas in her past, now she's attem...

The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.

Ana Maria Sanchez dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist. She had the bubbly personality and potential to be a good one, friends and family said. But Sanchez’s life came to an abrupt end when Valu...