The author of “Motherhood” answers our questions about her reading habits.

When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp.

Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same as being good at it.

Ode to a sitting senator.

Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on.

French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side.

Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home.

Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem?

“The Renoir Girls,” “Little Blue Dot,” “Air,” and “I Want You to Be Happy.”

Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.

In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?

Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses.