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Elena Ferrante’s novels, whatever else they’re about, are always describing the distance between two points: working-class Naples and the putatively better neighborhoods and cities and social...

Blood Quantum is an old-school zombie film, as opposed to the recent onslaught of AMC Walking Dead wannabes. Like George Romero’s 1968 classic, Night of the...

Generations of critics and readers have chosen to emphasize the spiritual communion with Nature described by Thoreau and, of course, this was important to him. But...

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept that has found its way into conversations about political power, material prosperity,...

Our system of commercial medicine, dominated by private insurance, regional groups of private hospitals, and other powerful interests, looks more and more like a numbers racket....

In an afterword to The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), I wrote about Jeffrey Masson’s lawsuit, taking a very high tone. I put myself above the...

To the Editors: Steve Coll’s well-informed and insightful review of Samantha Power’s The Education of an Idealist gives, rightly, large play to the Obama administration’s decisions...

To the Editors: I was grateful for Esther Allen’s review of my novel The Gringa, which raises a number of ethical questions that were major concerns...

Knowing that courts and law enforcement are understaffed and scrambling during the pandemic, many abusers are emboldened, social workers, mental health counselors, and lawyers report, to...

My father worked as a pipe fitter in the local paper mill for over forty years without complaint. Hard work pays off, my parents always said....