Katy Waldman A staff writer covering books and culture.

Sea lampreys—invasive, leechlike creatures that once nearly destroyed the Great Lakes’ fishing economy—are kept in check by a ...

As the Trump Administration tries to rescue symbols of the Lost Cause, an exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, ...

Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture ...

In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, ripe with eco-paranoia, the actress and Jesse Plemons come to physical and psychological blows.

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A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria ...

Commander Robin, under the auspices of the Herbst publications, led an expedition last year in search of the South Pole but, through the operation of a little-known law of relativity, or something or ...

No. 302 West Twelfth Street has three and four-room apartments only. Though these rooms are similar in proportion to the others, many have the added charm of odd angles, because of the unusual shape ...

The regular forward line worked their old triangular formation in front of the goals, boxing the defence (which was trying to box them) and shooting the puck around the triangle like jugglers with a ...

All that could be heard was the remnant of tenor tones that must have been thrilling in days when phonograph records were a greater drain on the purse. A little later, we saw Paoli in the flesh—no ...

But here they are and helping to make a show that the season may find hard to duplicate. We feel that the case of Young America could almost rest on the work of these men. With an addition or two, we ...