The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal

The author's new novel is a brilliant, spooky meditation on the sins of history.

A new book documents the legislative turmoil that led to the Civil War.

How Anthony Powell chronicled the curiously languid world of the English middle class

A new collection of far-sighted essays dissects the pathologies of the present moment.

Ling Ma’s novel ‘Severance’ likens life under capitalism to a zombie apocalypse.

The show's third season illuminates the hard work of living a better life.

The history of strikes shows that, for lasting success, workers need to capture political power.

'The Witch Elm' uses traditional mystery devices to construct a gripping political narrative.

Do atheists think too much like believers?

The author of "My Struggle" on political correctness, the weight of history, and why he named his book after Hitler’s memoir

A new book argues that America's forests and streams provide far more value than they cost to support.

What a literature that embraces female anger can achieve

His new novel takes the reader on a boorish financier’s misguided journey of self-discovery.

For Jill Lepore, the United States has always been a nation caught between its sunny ideals and its darker realities.

How the country’s elite institutions have shaped colonialism, Brexit, and today’s global super-rich

But does it matter in the age of Amazon?

The inventors of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator saw it as a path to self-discovery—and a tool of workplace management.

Two new books propose links between the Bard and the Trump era.