For the first meeting of his book club for men, Yahdon Israel, a 35-year-old senior editor at Simon & Schuster, asked the ...

Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

Readers can look to the past to discover more about the man who became the first truly American Pope.

I usually complete this drive by getting onto Route 2 eastbound, taking it to I-95, and opening the car up as a counterpoint to the sedate twisty-road driving. For some reason, this time, I didn’t—I ...

In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ...

But the book that most defined those months and years was Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Jamison’s essay collection ...

Japanese officials are dismissing alarm over the prediction of a July “catastrophe” in a comic book, “The Future I Saw,” ...