On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir

Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them.

We need a new kind of writing about Russia.

The business of bookselling is more political and partisan than ever before. Things won’t go back to normal after Trump leaves office.

Blake Gopnik’s biography shows an artist haunted by death, seeking refuge in consumerism.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Evangelicals have successfully promoted a depoliticized vision of their movement. Its fundamental principles have plenty in common with Trump.

He evidently believes that he can make more money self-publishing—especially if he portrays the move as a rebuke of liberal elites.

How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

A dark new family history from Donald Trump’s niece may be the most intimate psychological portrait of him yet.

Andrew Martin’s characters spend a lot of time gently mocking their own privilege.

Two books grappling with loss offer strange solace.

A new book reveals that our paranoid crisis has been a century in the making.

Zephyr Teachout’s new book lays bare the private legal system that shores up their immense power—and hides it from public view.

The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

The president’s latest futile attempt to block a critical tell-all book proves that he was never the political genius the media made him out to be.

The German sociologist’s famous treatise on capitalism takes on new meaning amid a job-destroying pandemic.

Leigh Stein’s novel “Self Care” drowns wellness Instagrammers in their own moon juice.

In the dangerous and secretive world of Phase I clinical trials, black men bear the greatest risks.