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The Twin Crusades Against Drugs and Guns

Americans are suffering the "unjust, cruel, and even irrational" consequences of the wars on intoxicants and firearms.

'The Rock on Which Modern Britain Was Built'

In her seven-decade dedication to a life of service to her subjects, Elizabeth II won their hearts as well as their respect

Charles in Charge

With Queen Camilla by his side, the new king faces challenges in his realm-and his family

Amanda Gorman Poet, 24

Amanda Gorman, whose recitation of "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 inaguration made her America's most famous poet, has never met a mountain she couldn't scale

Black or Bot?

As trolls and foreign agents co-opt Blackness for political gain, it's becoming harder and harder to identify truth online.

Reverse Culture Shock Is the Dark Side of Living Abroad

No one talks about it, but I'm ready to.

The Wedding Present

As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after the war. I've been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.

A World Without White People

Mohsin Hamid's empty parable of race transformation

Best Wishes

Stories from the front of the book-signing line

Annie Hwang - Agents & Editors

Annie Hwang of Ayesha Pande Literary talks about community building, professional burnout, the questions writers should ask when querying agents, and the demanding work of advocating for diversity in publishing.

Ms. Robinson Goes to Hollywood

When my book became a TV show. I had to get myself camera-ready.

Book Prize Celebrates Older Poets

Even as the number of awards for debut poetry books seems to have increased over the years, an inordinate number of those awards are won by writers age forty and under.

As Told to - The Play's the Thing

Shakespeare's Hamlet has been endlessly adapted. Playwright James Ijames's fat ham turns the chilling tragedy into a riotous exploration of queerness.

We Have a Printing Paper Problem

A new supply chain parable for our times

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue

Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

‘Men and Women Need to Fight Together for Equality'

Track and field-great Jackie Joyner-Kersee on winning Olympic gold and her hopes for the next generation of female athletes

The Book That Never Stops Changing

What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses

Two fathers

Their sons were among the sixteen people who were killed in a bus accident on a cold afternoon in Saskatchewan. Chris Joseph and Scott Thomas lost their sons in the same way, but in grief, their roads diverged.

Alaska's Wild West

Adventure and history await discovery across the last frontier state.

Advice to the Young

One of the world's most celebrated writers has much to share—though she sometimes wonders whether she should keep her thoughts to herself

Tracy Flick for Principal

Tom Perrotta's '90s antihero returns.

Chasing Joan Didion

I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?

Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic Machismo

In her novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.

Still Yawning at the Apocalypse

Why is the world ignoring the latest U.N. climate report?

Things Change

Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night is part memoir and part firsthand account of modern gay history

More Cracks in the Glass Ceiling?

A new Harvard Business School analysis nds progress is being made toward workplace gender equity but it’s still slow going

There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”

Why can't America see that?

Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This

In his new book, he tries to write about the ’90s as it felt at the time— at least to people like him.