At that moment we somehow knew that it was the beach where the artist, with a perfect taste for drama, for a great story, for a piercing ray of light, had met his end. His signature might have been ...

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, by Graham Allison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 400 pages. $16.99. Red Flags: Why Xi’s China Is in Jeopardy, by George Magnus. Yale ...

The rules of Japan’s national sport are relatively straightforward: two rikishi—literally, “strong men”—face each other near the center of the ring, crouched on their haunches, like plus-size ...

It was in 2018 that Aaron Slodov came to believe that America had lost its soul. Slodov, an unassuming sandy-haired millennial from Cleveland, had spent much of his professional life working out ...

Though they already live alone, Vigdis Hjorth’s narrators often feel that they need to be even more alone, to retreat from city life altogether, to a place where there is no risk of running into their ...

is a writer based in Berlin.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is an enormous complex in Washington, just south of the Watergate and almost completely surrounded by highways. It is an unmistakable artifact of ...

From The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy, out in February from Dutton. Leon Trotsky’s whitewashed study, which abutted his simply furnished bedroom, was ...

Becky Zhang: “The Precipice” is set at a private all-girls school in Los Angeles in the Nineties, but is written from the perspective of a woman in the present looking back on that time in her life.

EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...

Writing about “Woke” has at least two pitfalls. One is that any criticism of its excesses provokes accusations of racism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny, or white supremacy. The other problem is ...