The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

An Oxford University professor and his partner have been prosecuted for cruelty to their pet rabbit and refusing to allow the poorly animal to be put to sleep. Professor Anders Kock, 41, who lectures ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...