The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

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Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that ...

On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s ...

As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...