Elizabeth Harris covers books and publishing for The New York Times and is the author of the forthcoming novel How to Sleep at Night.

My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist ...

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own ...

IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low ...

Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’ve been thinking lately about Nora, the whirling, frantic heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll ...

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.

The comedian Jamie Loftus’s previous podcasts have ranged wildly in subject matter—Mensa meetings, Floridian spiritualists, the comic-strip character Cathy—but benefited equally from her attention to ...

After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens ...

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a ...

America’s politicians have an age problem, and the issue seems especially acute among congressional Democrats. The prevalence ...

The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough, difficult, or ...