Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 27th

The Colorado congresswoman’s inflammatory rhetoric has made her a national symbol of the Trumpist far right. She presents a different image closer to home.

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward.

Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

The talk-show host discusses being a “comedy butler” to the stars, why he serves his guests a drink, and his new novel, “Frankie.”

The cartoonist depicts celebrities of the more ordinary, personal sort.

English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

Overwhelmed by too much stuff, we hire experts to help us sort things out. But what’s really behind all the clutter?

In 1911, the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre.