How to Look at Paul Gauguin
He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?
Book Review
A Reality Check for Tech Oligarchs
Powerful Silicon Valley leaders are prioritizing their utopian vision of the future over the concerns of people in the present.
America’s Johnson & Johnson Problem
A new book reveals how Big Pharma’s brazen behavior fueled medical mistrust.
What Is Alison Bechdel’s Secret?
The cartoonist has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.
Return of the Shaman
How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.
An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax
What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.