Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens that argues that they are. Also: Climate change grief; endangered humans; a warning in Germany.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep appear together on Vogue's cover — a strange way to promote a movie franchise that started by satirizing Wintour

March 16, 2026 – A mother-daughter story in documents.

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The novelist Rumaan Alam and the photographer David Land, with their two sons, downsized to a three-bedroom in Fort Greene where wild and chintzy wallpaper plays a starring role—everywhere.

Notes on Writing Fiction

Welcome to Premiere Party, by Richard Lawson.

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

There are only a few surviving recordings of the photographer Peter Hujar’s voice. In the portion of his archive at the Morgan Library in New York, a