Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

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Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon of ancestors. It was on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 ...

Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and elsewhere.

On or about the middle of just this past February - between the 13th and the 14th - a large group of culturally and ...

Actress Lili Taylor talks about the life-changing magic of birding—and how to get started in your own backyard.