Another big change for the UI's International Writing Program, with longtime director Christopher Merrill stepping down after ...

Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new ...

Susan Orlean has built a career out of noticing what others might overlook. Whether it’s writing about orchids, libraries, gospel singers or 10-year-olds, she’s made the ordinary feel extraordinary — ...

In our fiercely tribal and divisive culture, when consensus is illusory and we can’t seem to agree on even the most fundamental facts, the notion of shared history as a societal precept has left the ...

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the ...

László Krasznahorkai, whose fiction walks the knife-edge between despair and grace, has become the second Hungarian to win ...

If you’re a regular on Reddit, you probably know about r/place. Since 2017, it’s been one of the best social experiments on the internet. In essence, the experiment, which was made by Wordle creator ...

I should have known better than to expect to meet someone who once described himself as a “poor man’s Howard Hughes.” And yet, how could I not try? After all, the man is not exactly a hidden ...

As the U.S. rolls back aid and protections, these contemporary artists are making the art world, at least, more open. By Julia Halperin Photographs by Melody Melamed ON A SPRING afternoon in 1991, the ...