Protesters have been flooding the streets of San Juan, P.R., for more than a week to demand Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló's... Read More

Last week, the Ritz-Carlton in Washington played host to a much-hyped conference devoted to “national conservatism.” Hosted by... Read More

In an annual rite of late spring, I chide the affable minister of my wife's Presbyterian church for the congregation's singing of “The... Read More

Despite his iconic silence in oral arguments, Clarence Thomas is not the least-known justice to sit on the Supreme Court in recent years.... Read More

Marxism and Buddhism might not seem to have much in common. The former is a materialist socioeconomic theory conceived by a 19th-century... Read More

A literary publishing house is a strange beast—a business, yes, but also less and more than one. Publishers sometimes develop exalted... Read More

In April 1649, just three months after the execution of Charles I and the establishment of the Commonwealth, the first English translation of... Read More

The serial killer's Achilles' heel is the very thing that makes him so fascinating: His urge to repeat himself. He either stages his murders... Read More

Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer's most revered works,... Read More

Herman Melville seems to have got the idea to write a novel about a mad hunt for a fearsome whale during an ocean voyage, but he wrote most... Read More

We live like kings these days, even while we bemoan our state like beggars. Generally speaking, the members of the American middle class... Read More

The hour would appear to be right for the resurrection of Nelson Algren (1909–1981), who had been Chicago's premier novelist several... Read More

Americans opt for unexciting suburban life. The English idealize their culturally desolate countryside. True Europeans prefer... Read More

Seventy years ago, an explosion in a far-flung corner of Soviet-ruled Kazakhstan set off an arms race that took the world to the brink of... Read More

Hiram Coombs Whitley, the chief of the U.S. Secret Service under President Ulysses S. Grant, was brave and public-service-minded,... Read More

Toward the end of “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” the linguist Gretchen McCulloch acknowledges a... Read More

William Giraldi, author of the critical prose collected in American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring, is that rarest of... Read More

In April 1949, the poet Pablo Neruda strolled onstage at the First World Congress of Partisans for Peace, in Paris, and apologized... Read More