Emily LaBarge was taken hostage with her family on vacation over Christmas 2009. Her memoir acknowledges the gaps in her memory, and the details she won’t share.

The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.

After becoming a parent, Aviv revisited some of her old stories, finding newly revealing details and asking follow-up questions.

Franklin Foer’s bestselling 2004 book helped sell soccer to Americans thanks in part to a defense of globalization.

The Earth Liberation Front grew impatient with legal forms of protest. Then they turned on each other.

His new book, Communion, sketches out a redemption narrative that is jarringly at odds with his actions.

Joseph Osmundson’s “Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood” is an utterly unique contribution to the often predictable genre of infertility and parenting lit.

The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.

The urban professionals who transformed American cities and tastes and pulled the Democratic Party to the right are a dying breed.

Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.

Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes.

In her memoir Ghost Stories, grief is a form of knowledge—anguished and fragmentary, but knowledge nonetheless.

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

A conversation with Jasper Craven about military education, abuse, and the uses of religion as a form of control.

In scrutinizing our relationship with the natural world, his classic works helped us to better understand ourselves.

Her characters grapple with mean, stubborn, and lonely parents, and work out how to grow old without turning into them.

A lightly spoiler-filled conversation with the author about his new novel, Vigil, climate change, and redemption.

Elisa Tamarkin retraces her father’s work in Vietnam, and untangles the relationship of American newspaper business to the American war machine.