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Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.

French connoisseurs sold the Chinese pomp and prestige, until they started manufacturing it themselves.

In a culture that often underrates female friendships, a new book of conversations between two friends is invaluable.

It turns out that even the millennials who fight wars don't want to hear bigoted jokes.

One writer’s personal history with Highsmith’s forbidden love story—first as a young woman and then as a wife and mother.

Nursing has become a status symbol and new mothers are feeling the pressure to conform.

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán works at the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet.

What happens when we erase our online lives?

An excerpt from Jan Morris’s “Conundrum,” her classic memoir of gender transition.

"The Price of Salt" was a dime-store paperback that became a groundbreaking work of lesbian culture.

The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.