This year’s event put the spotlight on Philippines and on Ukrainian literature as a form of resistance against Russian colonialism ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Wax Child by Olga Ravn and P.S. You’re the Worst by Chloe Seager.

Across the democratic world, the postwar era’s dominant political parties are losing their grip. One paradox of American ...

Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven ...

"The Look" should be studied by generations to come, not because of what it reveals about fashion, but of politics ...

Who Is a True Christian? is an ambitious book. It draws together theology, politics, and culture to provide both a diagnosis ...

The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern (LSE) Ever since the publication of the seminal Stern ...

Americans are pushing back on former first lady Michelle Obama’s suggestion they’re “not ready” to elect a woman to the White ...

When the NFL in September 2025 announced that Bad Bunny would headline the next Super Bowl halftime show, it took only hours for the political outrage machine to roar to life. The Puerto Rican ...

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American ...

There are too many writers willing to soften their stories to make readers comfortable. In an era where much of the literary ...

U.S.-Canadian novelist John Irving says he won’t travel to America to promote his new book, Queen Esther, because of his ...