Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment ...

The boxes were stacked en masse outside our door, addressed in my mother-in-law’s exquisite handwriting. We had been warned. Our friends had also experienced the phenomenon of aging parents cleaning ...

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

As soon as the Board of Regents voted—and the ink dried on the nearly $3 million contract—the University of Michigan put its president elect, Kent Syverud, right to work as the university’s new ...

We read to find ourselves. But what if, instead, we end up finding ourselves only in books? What if we can’t distinguish our life from those we read about? What if we stop trying to?

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...