The Elegance of a Stupid Question

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Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare 

How Not to Waste Your Wildness

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate neuroscientist, on How Your Brain Knows Where You Are

Earlier this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she's taught for a decade. This time she lost her job

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury

The secret life of a cell-cycle gatekeeper of breast cancer

What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers

The Lindsay Clancy Trial Was Never Going To Answer the Question Everyone Was Asking

Opposition to Data Centers Makes Little Sense

During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher

The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism

Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police

Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” But strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

COVID-19 Origins: Lab Leak or Natural Spillover?

3 Questions: The essential role of international engagement

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing