A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life
PEN America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, after calling off its literary-awards ceremony last week. Can it survive?
PEN America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, after calling off its literary-awards ceremony last week. Can it survive?
A group of prominent scientists believes fruit flies, fish, and mollusks might experience pain and pleasure.
What happens when protest culture and antidiscrimination law keep coming into conflict?
An 1826 novel encourages people to practice humility in the face of nature’s awesome forces.
The Supreme Court seems to be endorsing his views on presidential power.
The Puerto Rican superstar is known for his anthems of community. His latest tour is about his own isolation.
Too many members of the GOP are refusing to defy partisanship. They’re failing the Alexander Hamilton test.
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
She can’t help identifying with the notorious bird from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem.
Newer, better UV-blocking agents have been in use in other countries for years. Why can’t we have them here? (From 2022)
“The zeal to reform, which quite properly inspires the editorial, has never done fiction much good.” (From 1965)
“Baseball men agree with the philosopher that perfection—which means a pennant to them—is attainable only through a proper combination of opposites.” (From 1941)
Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic