Books, Arts, and Culture

During the Troubles, the British government tried hard to recruit informants, or “touts,” as they were called, among the paramilitary gangs on both sides of the...

How old were you when you first saw Paul Rudd as Josh reading Friedrich Nietzsche by the pool in Clueless? If you were in the formative...

Over the course of her career, Elizabeth McCracken has written critically acclaimed short story collections and novels. Opening one of her books to page one always...

Human skulls are enduring motifs in art history, and Jasper Johns has a longstanding acquaintance with them. A skull peers out from the corner of his...

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Despite its speculative premise, the show is about what we owe to each other in the real world The dead don’t stick around in New York. The...

His translator on what it takes to bring the Chilean author’s work to English readers Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer has worked on numerous books by the late,...

Ten questions about teaching writing with the author of “The Animators” I n our monthly series Can Writing Be Taught? we partner with Catapult to ask...

Comic books with recipes. It’s like the perfect nexus of my reading interests. I love reading books about food, such as food history, food memoirs and...

When a fictional work changes your life, for the better, it hits you in a good way. You could compare it to being in love. There’s...