In the West Bank, where foreign media can still operate, daily horrors are both more commonplace and less frequent than in ...

Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation, by Daniel Rachel. Akashic Books. 480 pages. $32.95. When I was asked recently what gigs I’d most ...

Five months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections. After all, Trump had proclaimed ...

I see more shredding trucks in New York than I used to. They park around the city for “community shredding” events, where neighbors, friends, and loved ones convene to watch their old bank statements ...

The Great Basin is a vast interior watershed cut off from the sea and spanning some two hundred thousand square miles of the American West. Settlers traveling on emigrant trails largely raced through ...

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...

From Things That Disappear, which will be published in the fall by New Directions. Translated from the German by Kurt Beals. The great advantage of an outhouse is that you never have to flush it and ...

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

From “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column, edited by Mary Beth Norton, which will be published next month by Princeton ...

Liz Pelly’s article on Spotify’s collusion with the stock-music industry [“The Ghosts in the Machine,” Report, January] is fascinating and well researched, but it could have used more historical ...

Every night without fail I try to tear the swastika off the Nazi flag. I’m proud of myself and happy when I do it, but the next day it’s always sewn firmly on again. a math teacher It was forbidden ...