It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion
Book Review
What Are Emoji?
Unpacking the 🍑, the ️🤡, and the 👍
The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’
How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes
How Richard Ellmann made James Joyce a hero to generations of readers and scholars
How One Animal Divided Europe
A new book explores what the wolf’s return to the continent means for people who have never known its presence.
Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
A Ukrainian Crime Caper That Undermines Expectations
Andrey Kurkov’s crime thrillers provide timely lessons for anyone living under an oppressive regime.
The Novelist Who Learned to Write Anger—And Its Aftermath
Susan Choi’s new book, Flashlight, considers the evolution of rage.