“The Room Where It Happened” is a powerful indictment of Trump—and of its author.

Why her new novel, “Death in Her Hands,” strives to be gross

The idea that programs must be funded by tax dollars is a myth. Stephanie Kelton’s new book explains how money really works.

A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.

The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?

The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

“My hope for all readers is that they will shut the book and run out and protest. That’s what I always expect people to do. They seldom do it.”

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham” imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.