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I’d been noticing monsters everywhere. It was 2025 and President Donald Trump had been calling immigrants “monsters.” His opponents hurled the term right

In the fall of 2015 I attended a workshop at our children’s elementary school that warned of the dangers of Snapchat, the social media platform popular,

Our desire to control a river’s course always conflicts with a river’s determination to shape its own.

A new novel recounts Penelope Fitzgerald’s strange sojourn in Mexico in the early 1950s, when her matter-of-fact despair was just coming into view.

JD Vance’s new memoir attempts to sidestep the vice-president’s ambitions with a shallow recounting of his conversion to Catholicism.

Tally Brown, New York reintroduces an “underground star” to the city whose stages, clubs, and bathhouses have been largely forgotten.

Since Citizens United, super PACs have poured billions of dollars into elections. A new book argues that outside money has its biggest impact in local races, where voters know the least.

A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony.

Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class.

Two new histories of the Red Brigades explain how terrorism took hold in the wealthiest parts of Italy in the 1970s.

In How It Works Out, a couple reappears in alternate realities—as celebrities, parents, cannibals, pets and insects—in search of the best of possible worlds.

As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling?

The sublime landscapes that inspired Frederic Edwin Church are refracted through climate change in Winter in the Summer House, an installation by the British American artist Ellen Harvey.

Her frequent ascents in airplanes and helicopters, and to the tops of skyscrapers, granted the painter an unusual and rich perspective.

Throughout the history of print, illustrators have helped visualize writer’s stories, and at times became storytellers themselves.

This fall a literary scandal has erupted in France around a debut novel with a dramatic title—C’était ça ou mourir (“It Was Either That or Die”)—by the