Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

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Kash Patel, Trump’s choice to lead the FBI, is a partisan operative with very little experience in federal law enforcement.

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As far as the tempest-in-a-teapot that Donald Trump is putting up over our flag being rightfully flown at half staff during ...

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Eight major French publishing organizations, led by the National Publishing Union (SNE), announced the creation of Filéas, a new company that will track book sales data—the first such industry-wide ...

In a wide-ranging interview, novelist Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake, discusses the aftermath of the revolutionary ’60s, the allure and brutality of American individualism, and why liberals ...

The original Czech text was published in 1985, although the French and English translations came out the year before.

If you’ve been spending precious time doomscrolling instead of allowing yourself to curl up with a book, perhaps this holiday ...