In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub skewers small-town bourgeois society.

Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” brilliantly evokes a hazy state of self-isolation.

Mark O’Connell’s book set out to explore survivalist subcultures. Then the pandemic hit.

A new book about the legendary singer Odetta comes not a minute too soon.

Finding refuge in Bill Buford’s obsession with French food

A new book traces the ways liberals have enabled nativism and xenophobia for decades.

Susan Fowler’s memoir is a remarkable record of personal struggle—but shows the problem with trusting the system.

The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”

From alcohol to amphetamines, a new book shows intimate links between the policing of substances and the waging of war.

How booksellers are coping with the coronavirus crisis—and what comes next

In Robert Kolker’s "Hidden Valley Road," a family tragedy illuminates the mysterious origins of an illness.

We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.

The final installment of Mantel’s trilogy is the bloodiest yet—and the saddest.

Recollections of My Nonexistence is big on relatable feminist insights but skips the difficult questions.

An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.

The Station Eleven author returns with another haunting novel.

A new memoir reveals a family’s sacrifices and triumphs.

The new HBO show, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel, imagines life under a fascist president.

In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.