The essay collection free-ranges from cutting emissions to the atom bomb to choosing to raise cats instead of kids.

A look at three books that explore dance life, history, politics, and “techno-dialogic feats for the animated bestiary.”

Claire Dederer’s “Monsters” looks at artists you might not want to bring home to mother. 

Joyce Carol Oates continues to move up literature’s ladder, looking down upon some of those who didn’t have her stamina. 

The protean artist set graphic design standards that resonate to this day.

A new book probes Shakespeare’s obscure origins and finds there just might have been a woman wielding the quill pen.

Artistic weed aficionados from the iconic to the anonymous transform a new book into a show.

In an interview, the author talks about academia, her connections to song and dance, working during the pandemic, gay male knitters, and the slippage of identity.

A new translation of Kafka’s century-old diaries nails our current age of anxiety and irony.