What Is Artificial Intelligence Anyway? What Is Artificial Intelligence Anyway?
Separating out the myths and facts of AI.
Apr 6, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ben Tarnoff
The Enigma of Gertrude Stein The Enigma of Gertrude Stein
Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers?
Mar 30, 2026 / Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace
What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite
Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among the Chinese upper crust and the people who wait on them.
Mar 27, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ting Lin
In “Bomarzo,” the Renaissance Man is a Monster In “Bomarzo,” the Renaissance Man is a Monster
Manuel Mujica Lainez’s historical novel, a strange biography of a 16th-century duke, leaves the reader wondering if human nature can ever change.
Mar 26, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl
When Did the Natural World Stop Feeling Sublime? When Did the Natural World Stop Feeling Sublime?
In Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane challenges himself, and others, to find a new way to write about nature.
Mar 25, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Isabel Ruehl
The Radical Texas War Against the “Devil’s Rope” The Radical Texas War Against the “Devil’s Rope”
An excerpt from the new book The Myth of Red Texas.
Mar 24, 2026 / David Griscom
The Trouble With Adapting “Wuthering Heights” The Trouble With Adapting “Wuthering Heights”
Why adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, across generations, have misunderstood the work and its world.
Mar 24, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Victoria Baena
The Hidden History of Free Choice The Hidden History of Free Choice
A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld about her recent book on the roots of the concept of choice.
Mar 18, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of an Affordable New York Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of an Affordable New York
A new book revisits the public housing programs of the 1930s.
Mar 16, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Freeman