The essay focuses on readers’ varied reactions to the characters I’ve written – characters who challenge expectations about ...

I was never encouraged to think about my sexuality, like many others, because heterosexuality was the “default. ” My parents ...

As the plane descends into Paris, I am reading Another Country by James Baldwin. Eric and Yves have taken a trip together, ...

Deborah Levy is a celebrated novelist, memoirist and playwright whose latest book — “The Position of Spoons” — is a petite ...

In elegant dispatches from the Cape's shoreline, Mr. Finch would glimpse seagulls at sunset and see "white eyebrows against a ...

Alfred University Professor of Philosophy Emrys Westacott’s essay “Frugality: From the Good Life to the Good Society” was published recently in the ...

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal ...

The Message” recalls the spirit of Baldwin as Ta-Nehisi Coates places himself in foreign surroundings to gain a better ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection “The Message” is nothing if not on-brand. But ...

A small group of independent-minded journalists started new alternative publications to expose the ideological rot on campus.

It was impossible to grow up in Berkeley and not be drawn to the archipelago of bookstores that shaped the era,” writes bookman Steve Wasserman in “Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a ...

Like the trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, so over the years an architect leaves behind a body of ...