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Copyright © 2021 by Kristen Radtke. Excerpted from … Why Do We Look Down On Lonely People?
A new graphic novel argues that even though social isolation is extremely common, it is too easily maligned.
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Illustration by Danny A Better Way to Look at Trees
What pioneering new research has revealed about the forest
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Illustration by Kensuke Koike; Bettmann / Getty Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.
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Daniel Mihailescu; Siro Rodenas Cortes; Stefanie Keenan; Marvin … We Choose Our Cults Every Day
Cultish, a new book by the linguist Amanda Montell, reveals how insidery language informs the communities of modern life.
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Bettmann / Getty; Tom Kelley Archive / Getty; … The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere
A captivating new history helps us see the humble appliance’s sweeping influence on modern life.
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Illustration by Ayşe Klinge; Bettmann / Getty The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright
A previously unpublished novel invites a reassessment of a writer criticized for his doctrinaire pessimism about race in America.
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Popperfoto; Roger-Viollet; Fred Stein Archive; Martha Holmes / … The Opportunists
In Louis Menand’s monumental new study of Cold War culture, success owes less to vision and purpose than to self-promotion.
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June Park Women Refusing to Be Like Other Women
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore the liberating power of isolation.
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Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Popperfoto / … The Dharma of Working Out
In her new memoir, Alison Bechdel runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Soloflexes her way toward transcendence.
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Vanessa Saba / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty On Rape Narratives and the Surprising Value of Plot
Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing
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ED JONES / AFP / Getty What Grief Tastes Like
Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart shows the possibilities and limitations of the food memoir.
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Frank Muto / LBJ Presidential Library Don’t Underrate the Political Spouse
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
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Alec Soth / Magnum The True Costs and Benefits of Fracking
New York is getting more out of the domestic oil boom than North Dakota ever will.
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Gérard DuBois The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
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Katie Martin When Did Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure?
Sam Sifton’s exciting, but daunting, invitation to improvise
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; Bernard Gotfryd / Hulton … The Relentless Philip Roth
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
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Na Kim The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
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Vanessa Saba; Rene Johnston; Chris Williamson; Getty What Happened to Jordan Peterson?
Adored guru and reviled provocateur, he dropped out of sight. Now the irresistible ordeal of modern cultural celebrity has brought him back.
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Scott Gelber Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
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Illustration by Ryan Haskins; images from GraphicaArtis / … Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power
Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow
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