How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

“Long Live the Post Horn!”—the latest novel by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth—is an acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.

The craziest year in publishing industry history just got crazier.

When millennials talk about being burned out, they are pointing to the failures of capitalism.

Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s vision for a new civic community

Current laws target low-level employees and let the worst offenders off the hook.

Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length but has far more heft.

“One Billion Americans” is a loosely-informed mishmash of policy, held together by anxieties about American power.

His book has as many damning revelations as The Atlantic’s blockbuster scoop on Trump’s denigration of military veterans.

The radical anthropologist was that rare figure: a scholar who was also an activist.

In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.

Two new books by Jason Diamond and Eula Biss expose the fraught moral dilemmas of living in the ’burbs.

A new book argues that the threat of secession has never left American politics.

Francesca Wade’s book rediscovers the neighborhood that gave Dorothy L. Sayers, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. a place to think and write.

“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.

The comic thriller “Squeeze Me” is set, like Hiaasen’s other books, in Florida—which turns out to make a big difference.

Did distractions, disruptions, and gossip shape Tolstoy’s novel as much as long-simmering ideas about morality and desire?

In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.