When the video of his birth parents makes him wonder whether his destiny is evil, it takes only a trip to his adoptive ...

In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

My Sharon is dealing with “the Change,” which seems also to be on Paley’s mind in “My Father.” (“We should probably begin at ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Voices Lost in Snow” ran in The New Yorker in 1976, though I discovered it almost two decades later, in a discarded library ...

Brodkey wrote “The State of Grace” in his early twenties, a sweeping act of pure genius that took him only forty-five minutes ...

Told in fragments, the book spans Alyan’s itinerant upbringing, in Kuwait, Beirut, and elsewhere, and her life as an adult in ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

I need some time alone, like the rest of my life. It’s weird to me now that we urge kids to blow birthday candles out when they should burn, given that our bones are I.O.U.s. Cake sounds good, and ...

The monks of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore have hosted Cosimo de Medici in exile and a papal conclave, but they won’t be ...