Two new graphic books by Charles Burns capture the pleasures and discomforts of human connection and self-expression.

Joe Kahn, the newspaper’s executive editor, wants to incentivize his staff to take on difficult stories, even when they might engender scrutiny, or backlash.

Before getting up, I like to lie under the covers for thirty minutes meditating, which is really just a fancy word for “falling back asleep.”

The snap elections yielded a surprising defeat for France’s far right—and a new set of problems for Macron to contend with.

The director Pascale Bodet works wonders in “Vas-Tu Renoncer?,” based on the relationship of Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire.

President Macron’s gamble in fighting the far right has to be declared, if not a success, at least not an absolute failure.