Who wouldn’t want a book of the secretary’s speeches?

In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

The best stories in It Will Come Back to You could only take place in a big city, where women escape social conventions.

As he writes of his childhood in Syria, of protest at Columbia, and of ICE detention, Khalil refuses to be reduced to a “face on a poster.”

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.

David Thomson is the ultimate film buff. He also believes film has drastically distorted reality.

Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.

Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.

The New Orleans writer’s career has been refreshingly unproductive. She writes the only way she knows how: comic, intuitive, frustrating.

Trump inherited laws designed over two centuries to benefit slaveholders, eugenicists, and segregationists.

Republican lawmakers limited public funding for Parton’s children’s book foundation.

Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.

A new book argues that the Marquis de Morès was a forerunner of Hitler and Mussolini, even though they emerged from very different political moments.

The seasoned criminals of “Cool Machine” adapt to the chaos, striving, and gentrification of the 1980s.

The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp is a practical guide to opposing ICE and a strong moral argument for action.

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?

As a new biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment, but it has many gaps.

In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.