A new history traces an anti-democratic politics of hate, repression, paranoia, and revenge to its origins.

Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.

Why is one of Turkey’s foremost novelists in jail?

The pandemic has only accelerated a years-long trend of cultural homogenization—and it is bound to get worse.

Her new story collection poses thorny questions and defies her critics.

An elaborate secret life was a necessity for children’s author Louise Fitzhugh.

Three new books show how Northern states betrayed Black people, and why many found Mexico a safer destination.

The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.

What is lost when houses become fortresses against fires, floods, and disease?

A new book shows how the NRA forged an alliance between cops and civilian gun owners.

Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger” is a toothsome morsel.

A Trump post-presidency memoir would be a mega-bestseller. But is the industry prepared to deal with the fallout?

Over 10 million people are stateless today. Why have governments failed to help them?

The similarities between Trump and strongmen from Mussolini to Bolsonaro are impossible to ignore.

Christopher Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony” is a galaxy-brain examination of the ways in which markets and sexuality intersect.

Talia Lavin’s book “Culture Warlords” documents her efforts to root out white supremacy—through some creative methods.

Why the hottest literary trend of the last decade is so blindingly white

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting” explores the traumatic history of a country torn apart by wars and gangs—and the dangers of not facing the past.

Is the magazine’s tradition of argument equal to the crises of the Trump era?