His new book lacks a fundamental understanding of political-economic power.

Giacomo Sartori’s novel “I Am God” narrates the ultimate existential crisis.

The rush to release a print version of the Mueller report is the latest example of a desperate industry increasingly addicted to quick takes for fast profit.

Saidiya Hartman’s book evokes the longings of black women once labeled “wayward.”

How sexism and machismo shaped a prestigious writing program

How cults feed on American ideals, aspirations, and hypocrisies.

Why Third Way liberals saw a glamorous, difficult diplomat as the protector of their values

Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.

Francesca Trivellato’s book on the history of credit debunks a bigoted cliché.

Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell?

Eric Hobsbawm’s awkward embrace of the Establishment

To tell a story of migrant children and the American family following them, “Lost Children Archive” needed a wider lens.

Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.

Her new novel captures a generation's beleaguered idealism.

The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.

The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport

Hugh Ryan’s book traces a largely forgotten history.

A new biography evokes the enchanted sprawl and smog of Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Briallen Hopper elevates the relationships American culture has overlooked and deflated.

James Lasdun’s "Afternoon of a Faun," about a rape allegation, bears an eerie relation to his memoir of a stalking.