I was bewildered that The Tale of Genji had such a hold on me at this particular moment: It is a wild, confounding work that many consider to be the first novel ever written, by a mysterious woman ...

International recognition will do as much to rebuke Hamas’s maximalist demands as it will those of the Israeli right, dealing ...

Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.

A couple of years ago, our picture book was pulled from library shelves in Florida. Now an evolving legal strategy threatens others like it.

Justin Richardson is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of the university’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In October, he will ...

Peter Parnell is a Broadway and Off Broadway playwright and TV writer. In October, he will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Bravery in Literature.

That’s what autocrats do. They cow public servants into submission—and in doing so, they create a closed system that is free ...

Trump appeared to treat the peace negotiation as basically a series of steps to be completed, while his counterparts were ...

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The setting, as it so often is when Trump piles into a car with his thoughts and then goes full Thelma & Louise off a ...

Letting schools pay revenue-generating athletes is long overdue. If that means letting squash and water polo die, so be it.