In nurse romances written under a pseudonym, Howe began working through the questions that would sustain and bewilder her.

The Hungarian author’s intricate and complex style has aggravated some and deterred many. Until now.

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the possibility of change.

All the Way to the River taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from the transcendentalists to the Beats.

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows four friends through personal and political upheavals.

What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames argues that landlords—driven by financialization and the development of insurance “brownlining” in the 1960s and 1970s—are largely to blame.

A new book on the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz focuses on music that was sanctioned by the SS and used for sadistic purposes.

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.

His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.

In an excerpt from her new book, the former vice president had harsh words for Joe Biden.

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.

In the wake of the forever wars, the U.S. military has largely looked the other way while criminality and violence pervade its largest base.

The beloved author’s memoir recounts her relationship with the eccentric, abusive, protofeminist Mrs. Roy.

Will There Ever Be Another You is a lyrical, chaotic journal of holy and profane dispatches from our grief-soaked timeline.

By restricting circulation of his work and cultivating an intimate yet prominent group of friends who championed it, the “poet of Alexandria” helped ensure his stature would only grow after his death.