A book of intimate interviews reveals how reluctant people are to speak about their true desires.

After news of Munro’s betrayal of her daughter, it’s hard not to see a preoccupation with guilt and secrets in her later work.

Barrett Brown wanted to use the internet to change the world. He ended up writing a remarkable memoir of his life in prison.

His stubborn refusal to heed wise advice, and bottomless belief in his own greatness, were on display in his first campaign for president.

Lawrence Ingrassia lost his family members to cancer one by one. Why did it take so long for medicine to find the cause?

The president is currently surrounded by yes-men. How will they defend their actions in the event of the unthinkable?

The diaries changed Che Guevara’s image from toughened fighter to sensitive, less certain young man.

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

“Blue Ruin” is a sharp novel about art, authenticity, success, and disaster.

From looted artifacts to rogue employees, a series of crises have beset some of the world’s most visited collections.

The case of Anna O. showed that psychoanalysis worked. Did Freud tamper with it?

The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.

The South Carolina state superintendent of education is about to gut school libraries.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

Lucy Grealy’s 1994 bestseller has become part of a larger story of literary friendship and the boundaries between artists and their work.

Sure, “The Sopranos” is art, but “Real Housewives”?

Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Last Saturday’s event in Ron DeSantis’s Florida with Lauren Groff and Jodi Picoult struck a blow for free expression.

Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?