Boston has always centered itself in the story of the American Revolution. It’s intuitive for a proud city that did a great ...

Terri Ochiagha is a deeply perceptive literary scholar who has an exceptional talent for explicatory prose. Her voice is clear and lucid. Unquestionably, her body of work so far is immensely ...

Nicole R. Fleetwood. Little, Brown, Nov. 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-56430-4) Fleetwood interrogates how her hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, went from a positive example of Rust Belt grit to a violent, ...

The American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association announced applications are open for the fifth annual Edward Medina Prize ...

When I was in graduate school, one of my film classes read an essay by a sociologist named Tony Bennett — who was no relation ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

My disappearing abs were just one of many demoralizing trade-offs my career as a biohacker took when I got pregnant. Since ...

Who remembers General Sir John Hackett? He was a distinguished soldier who in retirement wrote two popular novels, enjoyed by ...

This week’s story, “ The Readers ,” takes the form of a one-sided conversation between a male writer and a female therapist.

Her debut, Whore, published in 2001, is a furious, stream-of-consciousness, autofictional rendering of Arcan’s experiences as ...

Dava Sobel’s book The Elements of Marie Curie features chapters focused on some of the women scientists who worked in the ...

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?