Calvin Trillin's "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?" is the latest in a long artistic tradition.

The number of female bylines is up, but new data analysis shows that women authors are still stereotyped in book reviews.

How a group of divers found a piece of history.

The haphazard origins of American gun culture.

Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.

He made thousands of obsessive drawings of butterflies—but do they help us read his novels?

Louis Begley reflects on a writing career, begun at age 56.

A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.

The author of 'The Kiss' returns with essays about a difficult upbringing.

For much of the century, traditional "family values" have been more myth than reality.

Her new story collection 'What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours' is fascinatingly twisted and imperfect.

Today's most heated literary arguments uphold the legacy of Kate Millett's 'Sexual Politics.'

Companies are mining our data in the name of medical research.

Reiner Stach presents 99 gems he uncovered while researching his three-volume biography of the enigmatic master.

A new book embodies the flaws in the Bernie Sanders theory of history.