Lisa Halliday’s "Asymmetry" presents two worlds in deeply ironic tension.

Prejudice is often coded into software, including tools used by the government.

Leïla Slimani's Prix Goncourt–winning novel hangs some fine social observations on a thin, sensationalized plot.

Two new books explain how the Klan gained so much power in the 1920s.

In his latest novel, Ismail Kadare examines the line between death and life, and between the individual and the state.

Thanks to missteps by Henry Holt, customers have struggled to get their hands on one of the biggest nonfiction sensations in years.

William Drozdiak's new book charts the tensions that have divided a continent.

Why an unscrupulous journalist is the ideal chronicler for an unscrupulous White House

The acclaimed author hopes Trump spurs more environmentalists to abandon the climate-change fight in favor of conservation.

Three new books trace a century of antiwar activists' visions for a more equal, peaceful world.

The Amazon Kindle didn’t change books ten years ago, and it won't change them in the next ten years, either.

Why are schools still judged by the results of standardized tests?

How the ideal of a radically equal republic faded after the Civil War

The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Her sole short story collection, "The Vanishing Princess," retells folk stories with new female perspectives.

Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie’s new memoir of the 2016 campaign is an extended love letter to the president.

Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals

The U.S. funeral industry is the most expensive and corporate in the world. Can Americans find a better way to grieve?