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Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.

Trump is the sort of miser you come across in some especially ghoulish fairy tale. Will he ever get his comeuppance?

Who should test the world's riskiest drugs? Today, that job falls to the economically vulnerable.

The West still pictures India as rooted in Gandhian tradition. But it is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's radical nationalism that drives Indian politics today.

J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

Jim Thompson, the most "titillatingly depraved crime novelist of the twentieth century," penned iconic psychopathic protagonists and redefined the genre of noir.

Omri Boehm looks to Abraham for biblical evidence of philosophical universalism. His reconstruction is speculative, at best.

St. John's is attempting to justify a union-busting campaign by appealing to the university's Catholic identity and mission.

Dave Eggers’s latest novel is the meditation of an older, successful artist on what his life might have been if he had been unable to work successfully.

Abdul El-Sayed notches a win for the left in the Michigan Senate primary—and in the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party.

Physician-assisted suicide is not harmless or selfless: it is a rejection of the inherent dignity of the elderly and the vulnerable.

The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.

The Democratic Party needs centrists capable of self-criticism and leftists capable of self-discipline. The current state of the discourse militates against both.