Books, Arts, and Culture

What kind of sorcery has been placed on this year that has months that feel like decades and months that pass in the blink of an...

Looking for bookish gifts for grads? We’re entering the season! Graduations can happen year-round, but it’s coming to that time when public school gets out for...

A hiker who sets out from the half-timbered German village of Schrierke intending to scale Brocken Mountain—the snow line still visible at the last dusk of...

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s smartly interior debut novel But the Girl appears to follow the path of a bildungsroman. Our protagonist, simply named Girl, is on...

In April of 1956, as a PhD student in the physics department at Princeton, Hugh Everett III finished writing Wave Mechanics Without Probability. The paper received...