The editorial director of Riverhead Books talks with Rachel Riederer about the intimacy of editing, hunkering down in the White House, and why book publishers remain essential in the digital age.
An address to mark the Freedom Summer of the corporate civil rights movement.
Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone paying tuition should care.
A play-by-play of Wendy Davis’s filibuster, and why it made such great, heartening, and depressing absurdity TV.
At an evening with the AAWW, the celebrated novelist shares thoughts on influence and identity, and offers advice to young writers
One of the world’s leading climate activists on the science of dangerous weather, the imperative to organize, and how to get out of bed in the morning on a planet in peril.
Todd Akin's comments highlight the danger of letting ideology create facts instead of the other way around.
The scariest movies of the summer are at the Human Rights Watch film festival.
"The Island President," a new film about the crisis in the Maldives, wants to change the way we talk about climate change.
Hoodiephobia is real, irrational, racial—and that’s why the Million Hoodies March is so important.