Immerse yourself in a huge novel and you will start to find its timeline competing with the plot of your daily life.

Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, told from the point of view of a Watteau painting, skewers the art world.

A guide to books the critics loved and hated in equal measure.

A new cookbook aims to do for weed what Julia Child did for French cuisine.

Hughes Allison was a black mystery writer with a promising future. What went wrong?

Should writing be an art or a career?

The radical courage of silent movie stuntwomen.

Can record-breaking race times ever represent the glory of sports?

Edmund de Waal’s new book is an odyssey into an obsession with porcelain.

America’s game is a fun-house mirror for our national character.

Forty years after it was written, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” has spawned a radical new movement.

An interview with author Matthew Gavin Frank on the drawbacks of everyone's favorite food-centered holiday.

Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.

French connoisseurs sold the Chinese pomp and prestige, until they started manufacturing it themselves.