Featuring Nobel Laureates Esther Duflo and Venki Ramakrishnan alongside Booker Prize winners like Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” ...

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.