China in the 1980s contemplated a more liberal future—then wrote those debates out of its history.

The author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change.

Nancy Fraser talks about work, debt, and a breakdown of shared meaning.

Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

Her novels First Love and My Phantoms work a kind of magic, making stuck relationships at once believably maddening and oddly addictive. 

Stanislav Aseyev was abducted by Russian security forces in 2017. The next nearly three years were literally torture. But since February, he’s seen even worse.

In her memoir, the former public editor of The New York Times surveys the ills of the news business.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.

States were meant to be “laboratories of democracy.” Instead, they are pioneering new ways to restrict voting and distort representation.

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

When Elaine Showalter met the author in 2000, she was on the verge of an intellectual breakthrough.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.

An industry insider’s sympathetic account is unintentionally revealing of private equity’s worst features.

The law firm Jones Day was crucial to Trump’s presidency. How much responsibility does the firm bear for his legacy?

How much complexity is lost in a sentence no longer than six words?

The internet demands that women project desirability—at a level formerly reserved for movie stars.

In the 1960s, a British researcher launched one of the largest ever studies of people who believed they could see the future.

“Knocking Myself Up” defies the conventional wisdom that pregnancy and parenthood are exhausting, expensive, and full of drudgery.