Katie Kitamura’s novel 'A Separation' breathes new life into the theme of marital breakdown.

In a time of fear and loathing, Énard’s magnum opus points us toward the reality behind so many myths of the Orient.

An interview with historian Michael Kazin.

This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners.

Infatuated by his own greatness, the former 'Commentary' editor's memoir reveals the price of success.

'Exit West' conjures a world where there are no barriers to movement.

When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?

The editor of the 'New York Review of Books' championed the life of the mind.

Why we need critics to think about power and how it works.

The true cause of our sleeplessness epidemic.

Today's biggest novelists are throwbacks to a simpler time.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

'The Rules Do Not Apply' buys into the myth that feminism promises each woman that she can have whatever she wants.

Feminists do not have to be ideologically pure to be radical.

At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.

Privilege is best understood not as a real trait, but a construction: Anyone can be “privileged” if it suits someone else’s argument.