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.

A writer reflects on the loss of a "True Judge."

The author blazed a new path for the novel by combining an unbridled, inimitable vernacular with the great themes of postwar American life.

Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement

A new biopic continues a long tradition of obscuring the "Frankenstein" author's genius.

Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

A new book, endorsed by the president, reveals the fictions his supporters tell themselves.

The writer's new essay collection "Against Memoir" brings the unwritten queer past to the light.

Michael Pollan’s new book details the positive effects of LSD and magic mushrooms.

The artist looks back over a legendary career in comics.

“To Throw Away Unopened” is a memoir of family, freedom, and rebellion.