Narrow standards of beauty, whether they dictate body size or one’s fashion sense, remain powerful in many settings. But ...

Here, then, follow some books that have helped me to think. Lucy Ives, An Image of My Name Enters America, 2024, book cover. Courtesy: Graywolf Press Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (1966, Routledge ...

Jenna Bush Hager's memoir selections received rave reviews, and for good reason. Whether it's for your book club or a solo ...

Now, Osnos has published a collection of essays The Haves and Have-Yachts, which explores the American relationship to immense wealth through anecdotes about superyachts, private concerts with pop ...

We, as English teachers, perceived these essays as 'soulless', in a way, as many sentences were empty with regard to content and essays lacked personal nuances,” one of the English teachers wrote.

Amitav Ghosh’s essay collection, Wild Fictions, explores his critical perspective on human society's relationship with itself and the environment, particularly linking historical colonial pasts with ...

In nimbly reported essays, the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos considers the bizarre spectacles and amoral contortions of the ultrarich.

The essay ends there, but the story of Layla has another side to it. After Layla returned, she was diagnosed with cancer and later had to be put down. Van Hefty keeps Layla’s ashes in a place of ...

After the book came out, Hartman said, “I was really haunted by that second girl.” A year later, in the essay “Venus in Two Acts,” Hartman returns to the girl, criticizing herself for ...

Molly Jong-Fast is an American writer, journalist, author, political commentator and podcaster. She is an MSNBC Political Analyst, the Host of the Fast Politics Podcast & Vanity Fair Special ...

After 100 years, there’s still much to learn from ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ Virginia Woolf’s novel, published in 1925, is set on a single day in June, and yet it encompasses so much more.