Articles of Note

What if Gravity’s Rainbow or Ulysses or Finnegans Wake came out today? We may once have liked complex books, but not anymore. Martin Amis explains... more »

New Books

“Evolution is cleverer than you are.” Or so goes the old saying in biology. But does it hold in our age of Crispr and computer-powered gene editing?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Looking for a best-selling book for girls? Chances are it has a title like Bygone Badass Broads or Women Who Dared. But well-behaved women, too, make history... more »