The women in her new novel confront abuse and grapple with faith.

Suketu Mehta’s new book reckons with the colonialism and exploitation that have uprooted so many people.

His books keep pushing the same technocratic fixes. But today’s most pressing questions cannot be depoliticized.

The author’s latest book “Outrages” has been postponed. But she was once essential reading.

A new book about the medieval holy wars exposes a crisis in the field of history.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

A novelist reckons with the disappearance of his country.

In "Siege," his followup to "Fire and Fury," Michael Wolff struts and frets his way through another chaotic year, but does it signify more than nothing?

The New York Times columnist's new book, “The Second Mountain,” is a fount of easily won wisdom.

Would the world be a better place if we raised children collectively?

Michael Wolff’s latest exposé says Mueller thought indicting Trump was possible and proper—but the special counsel himself isn’t talking.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

For too long, I knew only part of the story of the riots of 1969.

Nelson Algren infused his best writing with passionate political conviction.

“Abel and Cain” is about memory, how it’s made and remade, sequelized and turned into kitsch.

The Russian writer Maxim Osipov was best known as a medical doctor, until he began to publish arresting, empathetic stories of sickness and treatment.

In their encounters with Western art, Soviet audiences found ways to reimagine themselves.

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

The narrators in “Sing to It” get through pain with the smallest, strongest words.