Emily Bobrow

Two studies suggest that one in four people shot dead by the police have psychiatric conditions

There were rumors Harper Lee was scribbling away at a true-crime book. But few knew about the case of murder and vengeance that transfixed the author.

On Broadway, her Lear is less a man or a woman than a human undone by human frailty

His plays ask audiences to confront their own complicity in prejudice

Yiyun Li turns a tragic personal loss into a profoundly intimate work of fiction

The American director usually prefers collaborating with living playwrights. He is willing to make an exception

A new two-part retrospective has opened at the Guggenheim 30 years after the artist’s death

“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”, a previously unpublished piece from Plath’s college days, is full of the themes that would inform her best work

Humans are uniquely ill-suited to addressing environmental problems. But our shortcomings can be used against us

An accomplished 19th-century physician and asylum director looks back at his career, one that has been paved with secrets and betrayals.

The photos Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst took of each other showed a young couple in love. They became an important public record of transgender life....

Hilma af Klint’s innovations have been underestimated for a century

The colour pictures Vivian Maier took on the streets of New York and Chicago show how she found beauty in the everyday

A new graphic adaptation is faithful to its spirit. But her proper medium is words

Technological advances have imposed new expectations for productivity that make us feel we have less time than we had before