A new book highlights the difficulty of treating mental health issues without addressing simple facts of poverty and injustice in people’s lives.

The millennials in Andrew Martin’s new novel, Down Time, are treading water: caught between youth and age, breaking up, and settling down.

Tom Junod wrestles with his father’s ideal of masculinity, and how to unlearn it.

An overstretched emergency department and TV network have a surprising amount in common.

A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s.

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel act out intergenerational warfare in Stephen Soderbergh’s art world drama.

At workplaces from Starbucks to Apple, highly educated downwardly mobile young people are organizing for better conditions.

The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.

How the subway shooter and his defenders honed the politics of fear and grievance

In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.

Love Story explores the corrosive effects of celebrity.

Her novel Repetition is an attempt to live with the weight of the past.

Margaret Anderson’s Little Review fought to bring the great works of modernist literature to the United States.

Fire in Every Direction recounts the uneasy coming of age of a queer scholar in the Palestinian diaspora.

While the left is often able to excite large numbers to protest, it fails to harness that energy to build lasting political power.

The parallels between state censorship in China and the US are increasingly striking.

The spy show starring Tom Hiddleston is back. But now it feels like Slow Horses.

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.