Sometimes aesthetic beauty is a window, sometimes it is a curtain. Annie Dillard makes beautiful work either way.

We can never forget this day, those of us who ever lived in and loved the greatest city. The memories are recursive, happening over and over in the brain that was not built to grasp catastrophe on suc...

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How Editors — and Dogs — Kill the Creative Impulse

Carousel is a book that embodies the notion that when vision is circular, what we look at always looks back at us. It is a small, and watchful, masterpiece.

In chaun webster’s first work of nonfiction, the words wail from the strain of pulling so much weight—what is unknowable about his family’s past, what can be extrapolated about their lives from the ge...

Outlandish as it may sound, Kory Stamper has now given us a spiritedly breathless account of the effort to define thousands of different colors—define, as in “dictionary entry.”

And some of us become homeless

Had to forcibly pull myself away tonight from the ongoing revelations in the release of new Epstein emails—the most-binged miniseries are inevitably about depravity underlaying the highest echelons of...

Rare among contemporary writers, Kate Zambreno does not produce books that are “about” one subject, or even three or four. They are about themselves. As well as about an infinitude.

Joanna Pocock’s memoir is about her travels from Detroit to California in 2023, retracing a trip she had taken 17 years earlier.

A Czech musician and former Kent State student was scheduled to perform several U.S. concerts. Instead, he was detained in Detroit and denied entry.

Amid renewed interest in Medicaid work requirements as part of a broader legislative package designed to significantly reduce federal Medicaid spending, KFF has updated its analysis of the work status...

Harris Lahti’s debut, Foreclosure Gothic, is a goth song in novel form. It is full of murk, omens, melodrama, the lushness of carnality, and the fearsomeness of love’s darker impulses. It follows the ...

About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.

In undertaking the dual biography of his aunt and uncle, the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski, Aidan Ryan looked in two directions: backward at the arc of their too-short lives and forward...

The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.

The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.

Many probationary employees targeted in latest Trump cuts across agencies had excellent ratings; legal challenges are expected.

In a revolution, it’s not the revolutionaries who win, it’s the reactionaries who lose.