How museums can promote diversity without demonizing tradition
We need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
Books & Arts
‘Being a mom sometimes sucks’: an interview with Sarah Hoover
The art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
The enduring appeal of Jaws, 50 years on
It’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
A walk through Geoff Dyer’s childhood
Homework is openly billed as an antidote to memoirs full of derring-do but it does exactly what the essayist’s fans will want
The enduring brilliance of C.S. Lewis
More than 60 years after his death, the Oxford literature professor and writer is everywhere
How to make America read again
Christopher J. Scalia knows his audience and his light, avuncular style proves engaging throughout
The mechanics of cancel culture
I was struck by the way the Blake Bailey combines the poignancy of decay with his gift for dryly comic observation
Glennon Doyle’s latest offering marks a change in direction
We Can Do Hard Things allows a chorus of voices into the Glennosphere
Mark Twain’s finest invention was himself
Over more than a thousand pages, Ron Chernow identifies the emotional root system that fed the writer’s art
