In Marisa Meltzer’s biography, Birkin is not primarily a muse. She is an artist who mixed glamor and humility, courage and vulnerability.

Her very long memoir, Book of Lives, is packed with minute day-to-day detail—but is strangely quiet on a few big subjects.

The far north has long been a region of exceptional international cooperation. But Trump’s designs on Greenland come at a time of growing instability.

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to the creative process.

An intimate inquiry into the effects of rape has a questionable twist.

Kraus’s novels revolve around real estate and the thorny questions of who owns, who rents, and how it shapes their art.

A new book argues that careful study of the Constitution’s history could support a liberal agenda.

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics dissected, debated, and most admired this year.

North Carolina is more than happy to wage this pathetic war.

Her memoir frequently shows an indifference toward truth, falsity, and meaning. In that way, it’s an artifact of our age.

Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.

Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is a record of fleeting impressions, irritations, and reflections from the edges of exhaustion.

The author knew recognition of her works would take time—and planned accordingly.

His letters are almost exhaustive accounts of daily life—every good meal, every conversation, every dalliance.

Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

The Mars craze is a case study in twisting evidence and defying facts.

What We Can Know imagines a collapsed society, devoid of art and ravaged by rising waters.

Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?

A new book recovers the origins of a movement recently championed by Sam Bankman-Fried.

Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.