Zadie Smith’s new book The Fraud goes deep into a 19th century criminal trial whose politics speak to modern times.

Slate’s parenting podcast on taming the hustle culture in all of us.

TikTok’s trans handy ma’am on the emotional dimensions of home maintenance.

And—surprise, surprise—Amazon isn’t doing nearly enough about it.

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by romance author Tia Williams.

Writer Michael Harriot says white-washing Black history is a desperate effort that’s bound to fail.

Slate’s parenting podcast on helping kids grow up in public.

Coco Krumme joins Slate Money to discuss the false promise of optimization.

Author Franklin Foer discusses the first two years in President Joe Biden’s White House; the war in Ukraine slogs on and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wades in; and higher education is in trouble.

Slate’s parenting podcast interviews the team behind The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles.

On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, Janelle Shane discusses her short story “The Skeleton Crew.”

Slate’s parenting podcast interviews award-winning journalist, Dashka Slater, on her new book, Accountable.

How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.

A book provides a dozen ways to help the world’s poorest people. Will they work?

Judge Margaret M. McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on her book about a Supreme Court Justice, public advocate and conservation champion.

This one goes out to anyone who has tried to help a prince get his money

Barbara Kingsolver’s latest draws inspiration from Charles Dickens to tell the truth of her people.

A gay romance among the ruling class seems to have been created for straight people.

Slate’s parenting podcast on the moral panic over screen time.

Joshua Prager on his epic investigation of “An American Story”: the complex life and family background of Norma McCorvey (AKA Jane Roe in Roe v Wade).

Slate’s parenting podcast on keeping your eye on the ball.

Dr. Britt Wray on turning anxiety into action.

Hollywood’s time of reckoning has been all talk. The ongoing strikes are proof of that.

In the July episode of Future Tense Fiction, Andrew Silverman discusses his short story “Furgen.”

Stephen Bright on all the ways America condemns people of color, the poor, and the sick, to a second class justice system from the Supreme Court in down.