The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

Many comics have decades-long marriages. What’s their secret?

On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.

Before playing The Last of Us, I had never thought that a video game could be a work of art.

A new book explores what the wolf’s return to the continent means for people who have never known its presence.

If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.

My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?

The classic kids’ game teaches a lesson about public health that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to learn.

Why novelists love to imagine great historical figures as detectives

Edmund White, who died yesterday at 85, infused his life with as much pleasure as he did his writing.