Long a silent presence in American life, class is now sharply felt in upheavals and displacement across the country.

A new book gives the spotlight to the filmmaker’s often overlooked collaborators.

An interview with Trevor Phillips about the UK's treatment of the "Windrush generation"—from the generous to the scandalous.

Music and math have always been linked, a new book explains.

Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story of the slave trade’s last survivor

A new book explores the history of splitting up—and why it’s harder for women.

In 'Kudos,' the novelist meditates on justice, the stories people tell themselves, and the difference between the two.

How the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fought for—and ultimately turned against—a man wrongfully convicted

Set in postwar London, “Warlight” illuminates a hidden world of endless conflict.

A spoiler-filled review of 'The President Is Missing,' a fun, overlong novel that rips from the headlines while being out of step with the times.

The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels

How America became over-policed

Her criticism collection, “See What Can Be Done,” tackles the pleasure—and the pain—of the life of the mind.

In a heated interview with NBC’s Craig Melvin, on Monday morning, former President Bill Clinton claimed victim status.

The veteran reporter's new memoir is a paean to the golden age of American journalism—for better and for worse.

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

The memoir of a professional tree-climber reveals the agony and the ecstasy of life at the top of the world.

Sam Pink’s disaffected fiction evokes the sheer weirdness of working life.