Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having ...

Discovered in a filing cabinet in Joan Didion’s office after she died, the 150 loose pages of notes formed a kind of journal ...

They could have called it “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers,” after Phyl Newbeck’s book, subtitled “Interracial ...

The Hungarian capital’s Jewish community hoped the worst Nazi persecutions would bypass them. The terror still came.

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

A version of this post originally appeared on April 21, 2025, in Eater and Punch’s newsletter Pre Shift, a biweekly ...

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

Graham offers a balanced history but misses an opportunity to reimagine the regulatory state. As proponents of a strong ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

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I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

In her sprightly new biography, “The Rebel Romanov,” Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg.