Today in History for Nov. 15: In 1280, German theologian and music theorist Albertus Magnus died. Magnus taught famed philosopher Thomas Aquinas. In 1492, Christopher Columbus noted in his journal the ...

Ms. King is uncannily effective at drawing readers into her sympathetic young heroines’ struggles to find the life and romantic partnerships they crave. Several of her books involve love triangles in ...

You should rewatch a classic Marlene Dietrich film, given designer Christian Siriano based his entire spring 2026 collection ...

A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel. By Bruna Dantas Lobato Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her debut novel, “Blue Light Hours,” came out ...

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word. By Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey is ...

The Manta Book Page Holder is designed for a relaxed reading experience, accommodating both paperback and hardback books. It effectively holds pages open, making it especially beneficial for ...

Mahmood Mamdani has written a startling book. Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

It took Kiran Desai nearly 20 years to write her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. I mean this as a sincere tribute when I say I'm amazed it only took her that long. Desai's near 700-page ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Bill Condon, written by Terrence McNally, Manuel Puig and Bill Condon and starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez, Bruno Bichir, ...

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, left, and Ari Schulman, editor of The New Atlantis, participate in the "Can Humanity Survive the Digital Age?" event hosted by the Institute for Human Ecology at ...

While it takes a minute to get all of those various pieces into place, it’s clear from the beginning that we’re getting what was promised in the form of an Absolute Universe crossover, complete with ...