Inside the world of Louise BourgeoisW riting when I am in pain feels painful and is the opposite of what I want and am able to do. When I am in pain I find it impossible to take hold of the pen. My ...

Discussed in this essay: Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages.

Future-proofing the American workerListen to an audio version of this article. I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one ...

One of five kids, Crumb was born in 1943 to Chuck, an enlisted Marine, and Bea, a diner waitress. In the span of a few years, Chuck’s posts took the family from Pennsylvania to Iowa to California, ...

O nce, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked to rail against Nancy Pelosi, who ...

Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?I t is powerfully tempting to call the new president of the United States a fascist. Donald Trump’s bullying tone, his scowl, and his jutting jaw recall Benito ...

Discussed in this essay: The Letters of Seamus Heaney, edited by Christopher Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 848 pages. $45. T his buoyant anvil of a book has brought me to the edge of a nervous ...

From Molly, which will be published next month by Archway Editions. T wo days before her suicide, Molly and I went to visit the High Museum, where we’d been together many times. There were hardly any ...

Discussed in this essay: Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, by Mary Beard. Liveright. 512 pages. $39.99. I f men think about the Roman Empire all the time, they do not do it under ...

I ranian state media briefly covered the crash the morning after, attributing it to a technical issue, and quickly pivoted to the Soleimani assassination. While news anchors glorified the commander, ...

From The Entanglement, which was published last month by Princeton University Press. W hen she dances, a young child already moves her body with a sensitivity to what is expected of her. Perhaps she ...

From Paved Paradise, which will be published next month by Penguin Press. P arking psychosis is a regular feature of American life. The former NFL safety T. J. Cunningham was killed over a parking ...