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A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.
Judas Iscariot's death is told in two conflicting Bible accounts—one of remorse and hanging, the other of a gruesome fall in a cursed field.
Matthew Specktor grew up around celebrities during an era of bold filmmaking — only to see safe franchises dominate and ...
The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.
As I’ve written many times, Trump’s three most powerful psychological motivations are revenge, revenge, and revenge. (Last ...
Kimberly Belflower’s smart, stimulating play follows a group of modern high-schoolers reading the Arthur Miller drama and interpreting it in light of their own lives.
The Bridge Kingdom” by Danielle L. Jensen is the first book from “The Bridge Kingdom” series, which currently consists of ...
Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural ...
Solvej Balle’s series about a woman trapped in time, On the Calculation of Volume, became a sensation in Denmark. Now they arrive in the UK ...
Taylor later published a book under the pen name “Anonymous” and publicly revealed his identity days before the 2020 election ...
CIA veteran Joseph Augustyn reviews James C. Lawler's book The Traitor’s Tale: A Novel of Treachery Within the CIA.
Christopher Lasch’s “The Revolt of the Elites” anticipated the resentments of ordinary Americans that have led inexorably to ...