Jeet Thayil’s new novel features a bereaved narrator, depression, and lots of drugs.

A new book explores whether rampant development can ease California’s housing shortage.

Midlife was once seen as a chance for women to reassert themselves. Then came an organized, misogynist backlash.

Nicholas Fox Weber’s new book connects the ubiquitous device to the canon.

Malcolm Harris’s book sketches a radical politics for the generation between Occupy Wall Street and the age of Trump.

Teddy Wayne’s fourth novel, Apartment, explores the complexities of male friendship.

Has society really become too comfortable and complacent?

Jenn Shapland goes in search of the novelist—and discovers herself.

From Nazi collaboration to money laundering, a new book chronicles the German bank’s “trail of destruction.”

In a new memoir, Dan Peres reckons with his addiction and captures the halcyon days of a media empire.

Adrienne Miller’s memoir of her relationship with David Foster Wallace is part of an emerging genre of women coming of age via an older, powerful man.

This Brilliant Darkness wants readers to see strangers as people.

With Diverse Editions, the publishing industry tried to fix its diversity problem. Whoops

Why the ideal of neutrality in journalism pushes discourse to the right

Paul Yoon's second novel, "Run Me to Earth," examines lives touched by violence.

For the characters in Miranda Popkey’s debut, opening up doesn’t always bring relief.

How do you let others influence you while retaining your own ideas? Four literary critics tried to find out.

Eastman was a women’s suffragist, labor reformer, and founder of the ACLU, but her work never quite took center stage.

A new biography—and a reissued collection of short fiction—resurrects a writer who deserves a closer look.

Ada Calhoun diagnoses the forgotten generation's fortysomething crisis.