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The author discusses her story "The Welfare State."

Whatever became of Don Sample?

Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure.

A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts.

The year's best culinary titles include a food history of the United States, a guide to being an excellent dinner-party guest, and a collection of recipes that people decided to take to their graves.

The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

From the daily newsletter: selections to keep you company as the year comes to a close.

The veteran and Senate candidate from Maine talks about the affordability crisis, his campaign's controversies, and why he isn't ashamed about his past offensive comments.