When I bought Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, I felt obliged to explain myself to the young man at the bookshop counter. I did not want the book for myself, I said—it was not the kind of thing that I ...

On June 5, 2024, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore donned bulky blue spacesuits and clambered aboard Boeing’s Starliner space vehicle. Later that morning, the spacecraft launched from Florida ...