Jennifer Wilson

Her début, “I Love Dick,” was an epistolary memoir of erotic obsession that redefined the form. In “The Four Spent the Day Together,” she turns another genre on its head.

Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever”

From the daily newsletter: Jennifer Wilson on the family fallout of DNA surprises.

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.

Nordic Echoes

At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer discovered a world of Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job.

The novelist discusses her new book, “Audition,” the role of performance in everyday life, and the trick of crafting a narrative that functions as a “Rorschach blot.”

Homeownership, long a cherished American ideal, has become the subject of black comedies, midlife-crisis novels, and unintentionally dystopic reality TV.

The author surveys school book reports and some fan mail, from M. Night Shyamalan, in her archives, which she recently sold to the New York Public Library.

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

From the daily newsletter: the booming heartbreak industry. Plus: the President of South Korea’s fragile position; twenty-four essential reads of 2024; and Lucy Grealy’s memoir of being seen.

After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.

The Philadelphia-born rapper on stage clothes (“Jumpsuit, bitch!”), the Diddy situation, and her run-ins with Questlove and Jay-Z. It’s a Philly thing.

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, meant unearthing its authentic culture.

Sean Baker, who directed the action rom-com “Anora,” meets the actors Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan for a tour of Russophone Brooklyn, where the cast lived during filming.

How Law Roach turns his clients into fashion icons.

The actress (“The Hunger Games,” “Pitch Perfect”), director (“Cocaine Bear”), and producer (“Bottoms”) talks facials and lipstick in honor of her role in the new thriller “Skincare.”

Not so with the Fletchers, the “extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich” family at the heart of “Long Island Compromise” (Random House), by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. When Carl Fletcher is abducted outside his estate, in 1980, his family quickly coughs up the cash; Carl’s wife, Ruth, withdraws two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the bank like she’s getting a coffee to go. (She is married to the heir to a Styrofoam fortune, after all.) She delivers a briefcase with the money to a baggage…

Decades before Instagram, the magazine’s legendary column democratized the thirst trap.

The ESPN star’s reporting on divisive subjects, including allegations of violence against women, has been as risky as it is refreshing.