How the writer’s stories and her memoir fashion a self from the same, revisited outlines

Alan Rusbridger’s account of his time at The Guardian illustrates the possibilities and limits of journalism in the digital era.

Her new novel "Those Who Knew" explores the prejudices, fears, and desires that are bound up with political impulses.

Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling

Anna Burns's Booker-winning novel takes on teenage girlhood, sectarian violence, and history's nameless actors.

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy

Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War

Heike Geissler's 'Seasonal Associate' is a harrowing novel based on her stint in one of the tech giant's warehouses.

A new book examines the lives of expats in Ecuador and their struggle to stay in the middle class.

How do we go about putting democracy back into public education?

In 'My Sister, the Serial Killer,' Oyinkan Braithwaite delivers a sly take on the black widow tale.

A new book argues that life may be spread more widely through the universe than we think.

The latest from America's horror bard finds a fantastical kind of empathy in small-town America.

Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?

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.