Barry Braun and Lisa Chasan-Taber offer 10 (satirical) tips for how to fail at being a graduate student mentor.

With social media’s click-driven political rancor muddying the waters, it can seem difficult to find models of civil discourse in this day and age.

Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.

When I returned home, I stopped journaling my daily life, but I continued to write when I needed to vent. Every once in a while, when thoughts swirled in my head and I could not fall asleep, I would ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

Generative AI is plainly not the metaverse. It may end up falling short of the headiest expectations. Its full impact will become clear only over a long period of time. Many firms say they are ...

What happened should be taken as a wake-up call, rather than a crime scene. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been the The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and ...

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden’s new book offers three steps to see and stop threats to America’s health system.

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

This week, I pulled out the letter he wrote on October 4, 1989 — exactly 36 years before this Saturday’s game. In it, he reassured me after I had earned a “C” on my first calculus exam. He reminded me ...