For all the messiness of his music, his account of his life in Sonic Youth is conspicuously tidy.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The senator has always wrestled with his conscience—and compromise.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.

C Pam Zhang’s novel “Land of Milk and Honey” imagines eating and surviving when climate change has decimated food supplies.

“People think, ‘Oh, it’s just snapping pictures of yourself; it’s very easy to generate attention.’ It’s actually very hard.”

The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.

A group of online sleuths tried to help the government—despite roadblocks at every stage.

Michael Doyle’s new book lays out how to avoid conflict with China and Russia.

Her precise, thrilling essays on public life do battle with conventional wisdom.

Michael Wolff’s new book on the Murdochs is full of juicy details, but its predictions may be off.

Katya Hoyer argues for a closer look at the triumphs and travails of everyday life under socialism.

“The Fraud” is a courtroom drama about an impostor, set against the backdrop of British imperialism. But the most suspect characters of all are the writers.

A car is a necessity in most parts of the U.S. It also exposes drivers to fines, police harassment, and predatory loans.

Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special” offers a glimpse of the fracturing experience of fame.

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.

At the Sullivan Institute, psychotherapy became a potent form of social control.