Oliver Sacks has made a literary art of staring into the minds of others. So what does he make of his own?

From his new home base in Brooklyn, the British novelist and firebrand talks to David Wallace-Wells about sex, porn, rioting, the difference between London and New York, and the dwindling fortunes of postmodernist literature and American empire.

The rigged ‘Twenty-One’ episode.

Spruce goosed!

Fashion and pop have always gone together. But then there’s Nicki Minaj.

Beginning this fall, planted right in the middle of the circus—next to the barn-size ads pushing blockbuster movies, was a billboard in three parts actually advertising a novel.