Books

The author of 33 Artists in 3 Acts discusses whether being an artist means knowing how to do life drawing, art as a financial asset, and the rise of Lena Dunham.

The authors discuss the influence of visual art in their writing, working to rap music, and the hypnotic smell of oil paints.

The author of Between Gods on uncovering family secrets, converting, and the vulnerability of self-discovery.

As Dana Goldstein writes in The Teacher Wars, education is at the centre of any national project. But are teachers agents of equality, or are they too often forced to be the opposite?

In this excerpt from her new book on religious violence, Fields of Blood, Karen Armstrong examines the psychological impact of World War I and the birth Protestant fundamentalism in the U.S.

The author of My Struggle talks about memory, translating the Bible, and his most epic of autobiographies as an act of “re-staging something that is inside of me.” 

A couple's kisses, from first to last, are catalogued in this short story from Shelly Oria's upcoming collection New York 1, Tel Aviv 0.

Wonder Woman, the creation of a polymathic polygamist, wasn't just ahead of her time—as Jill Lepore's new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman shows, she might have been ahead of ours, too.

Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood touches on the political roots of yoga in India. What is yoga now, and who has it been for?