The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have seemed trivial; the ...

From The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History, which will be published next month by Penguin Press. Dogs that are represented peeing in public—in churches and town squares, mostly in a… ...

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From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

Drawn in peppermint chalk is honest, the way no writing, not Even a diary, is honest, even though it too is a record of sorts, A record of the number of breaths drawn while writing at night. The child ...

Americans may have learned to live with soaring levels of inequality, but we have never really come to love our elites, and earlier this year, our relationship with the ruling class reached a new low.

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

I had had to shit ever since I woke up. In the morning, in the evening; I’m not sure when I woke up, but whenever that was, I had to shit since then. But I couldn’t. Or more accurately, I could only ...

In July of last year, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing the Make America Beautiful Again Commission, which claimed that his administration would “prioritize responsible conservation, ...

To live in society involves putting up with people who we did not choose to know and may in fact prefer not to exist. Even those we basically like and get along with are sure, from time to time, to ...

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...