Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to ...

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 12th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Borderlands, ...

Informed by Indigenous Andean knowledge, Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution broke legal ground by enshrining “Rights of Nature,” allowing anyone to litigate on behalf of damaged ecosystems. 1 In 2018, the ...

The boxes were stacked en masse outside our door, addressed in my mother-in-law’s exquisite handwriting. We had been warned. Our friends had also experienced the phenomenon of aging parents cleaning ...

Utilitarian public baths and pools once filled the world’s cities, but now new expensive spas are taking their place. Has even bathing become a luxury?