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Sacrée Frangine Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
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Ernesto Artillo A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
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Späth / ullstein bild / Getty What Alexander Calder Understood About Joy
America’s greatest sculptor gave objects a playful life of their own.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears
The deportation of Native Americans westward in the 1830s was fueled by busy bankers and unchecked avarice.
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Rodrigo Corral Capitalism’s Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over the world
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Aaron Marin Hilary Mantel Takes Thomas Cromwell Down
As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt.
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Illustration: Paul Spella; Sal Alas / Westend61 / ... The Art of Second Chances
In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.
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Cecilia Carlstedt Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
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Rodrigo Corral The Supreme Court’s Enduring Bias
Over the past half century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.
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Clemens Habicht The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism
Ida Tarbell championed reportorial methods and investigative goals that are as potent today as ever.
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Chau Luong Inside Tech’s Fever Dream
Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something wonders why she—and the rest of us—didn’t wise up to the grandiose myopia sooner.
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Kelsey Dake Cool It, Krugman
The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist
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Celina Pereira Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
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Star Tribune / Getty Margaret Atwood Bears Witness
Over the course of her writing career, she has explored the power and limits of personal testimony in times of crisis.
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Illustration: Arsh Raziuddin; LIbrary of Congress / Getty Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention
It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.
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Chloe Cushman Ways of Being
Three new books explore the variety of transgender experiences.
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Alexei Vella Boy, Uninterrupted
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Agence Opale / Alamy; ... The Loser-Spy Novelist for Our Times
Mick Herron writes about the broken spies sworn to protect today’s broken England.
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Eleni Kalorkoti The Secret Power of Menopause
Why the end of fertility doesn’t mark the start of decline—and may even help explain our success as a species.
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Riverhead Where Goodness Thrives
A small area in France has a long history of extraordinary kindness to strangers.
