A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art

The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters: Virginia Woolf on the Fate of Every Technology

Romantic love is a cultural invention that’s making us miserable

Ayatollah Khamenei’s Deadly Legacy

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

My Colleague Niall Ferguson on Iran

Trump Should Have Made His Case for War to Congress and the American People

To Protect, Serve, and Identify

Blessed Are the Rich

The Rise and Rise of the Civil Rights State

The War on Iran and the War on Anthropic

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

An Unlikely Culprit Causes Lower Blood Sugar at Higher Altitudes

Making Corruption Rampant Again

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

When Camus died in a car crash, he was carrying a return train ticket. "The greatest proponent of absurdism suffered an absurd death"

Alzheimer’s blood tests predict the average age at which the disease may strike, study finds

Newly Discovered Prehistoric Crocodilian Had Legs That Went All the Way Up

David Bowie: The Making Of A Modern Saint

Rose Lesniak, the magnetic feminist poet who heckled John Ashbery and trained dogs, is dead. She was 70

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

Murder on the Christmas Express, Murder Most Festive — what it is about the holiday season that makes readers want blood and gore?