An interview with Andrea Long Chu on her new book "Females."

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book explains how government policy and the real estate industry worked against black homeowners.

His new book and “His Dark Materials” on HBO dramatize the difficulty of moral action.

Unruly and unorthodox (and occasionally uneven), this year's Booker winner grapples with black identity.

A new exhibition harks back to a time when an author could sell books and be a total recluse.

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

Are his principles for a just society enough today?

A new collection of essays perfectly evokes the excitement and the anguish of young creative people in New York.

If the author of ‘A Warning’ wants to do some good, he could take some lessons from an actual whistleblower.

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

Differing versions of events compete and overlap in “The Man Who Saw Everything.”

How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

How feminist performance artists found a way to express the trauma of sexual violence

In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.

To convey the catastrophe of climate change, Amitav Ghosh had to break with realism.

How can they be so wrong, so often, and yet still exert so much influence on government policy?