As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

If modern music had a storyteller-in-chief, Taylor Swift would wear the crown. With lyrics laced in raw emotion and poetic flair, she turns her life into chart-topping art. Her songs do not follow the ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...