Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.

Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges.

“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

In Emily Witt’s memoir of hedonism and journalism, dancing is a way of processing political chaos.

Dinaw Mengestu’s novels, layered with crisis and heartbreak, show a different side of the nation’s capital.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our critics recommend this fall

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.

Instead of offering empathy, look at what the right wing does when it seizes power.

To improve conditions and lower prices, tenants should start withholding rent.

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a media that’s lost the thread.

“Intermezzo” is Rooney’s most somber novel, more attentive to loss and irreversible change.

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.