New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

Why have attacks on gender expression proven such a powerful tool for authoritarians?

The new FX series is not an attempt to make a “new” Game of Thrones or a “new” Mad Men or even a “new” Shōgun.

Has tech plunged culture into an era devoid of originality and surprise?

Former evangelicals are growing in number. But are they a movement?

The author of “Erasure” and “James” has spent his career running rings around his readers.

Her new book, “Reading Genesis,” treats the Bible like a perfectly plotted historical novel.

“The Wretched of the Earth” is perhaps best read today not as a playbook for revolt but as a conflicted reflection on it.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

“Same Bed Different Dreams” traces a mysterious government in exile, a shadowy tech giant, and writing-community beef.

The Apple TV+ show starring Juliet Binoche wrestles with Coco Chanel’s work for the Nazis.

Has the social justice left really derailed the party’s electoral fortunes?

Despite a glut of laws limiting reproductive rights, remarkably little is known about the uterus and its workings.

When the author began to transition in her 60s, she saw a lifetime of experiences in a new light.

A decade ago, the series turned viewers into sleuths, hotly debating plot details and clues. That era of TV is over.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, and Emma Stone take social awkwardness to the most painful levels TV has ever seen.