In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions.

A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

Journalist Beth Macy is the author of four books about the hollowing out of the American dream, including the 2018 best ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones plans to open The North Star Books + Bar in Brooklyn’s ...

Poindexter Village in Columbus was the United States' second public housing complex. Groundbreaking planned for May to turn ...

Albert Camus’s brilliance and tragedy show how doubt can be a form of courage. His search for meaning still speaks to an ...

Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Vance, as it turns out, grew up just an hour down the road. But unlike Vance, who blamed much of his ...

Jeneé Osterheldt pays tribute to D'Angelo, Diane Keaton, and audacious authenticity for A Beautiful Newsletter.

Sepalika is the name of a flower. It also evokes songs by Srilankan singers Karunarathna Divulgane and Jayasiri Amarasekara.

Outgoing Ford Foundation president Darren Walker has called for a renewal of ‘radical optimism’ and a reclaiming of ‘hope’ that ‘remains the oxygen of democracy’.  Reflecting on his 12-year tenure ...

For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But ...

Zadie Smith was born in 1975 in the UK to a Jamaican mother and a British father, and grew up in the ethnically multi-shaded ...