Books, Arts, and Culture

All too often, our email inboxes are a source of stress rather than solace. They’re filled with bills, advertisements, to-dos and slightly-problematic chain emails from our...

To the Editors: In his review of Enrico Deaglio’s A True and Terrible Affair Between Sicily and America, Frank Viviano writes that the 1890 lynching of...

To the Editors: Jenny Uglow’s “Big Talkers” describes Thomas Percy as the “first collector of English Ballads.” However, Claire Tomalin’s biography of Samuel Pepys notes Pepys’s...

To the Editors: For a biography of the late American poet Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), I would be grateful to receive reminiscences, anecdotes, or details from people...

To the Editors: I am not sure how your reviewer Gavin Francis took away from my book, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs...

I do not believe in magic. I don’t see a need for it. A belief in magic negates how complicated the world actually is. There is...