His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.

John Washington has spent years reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a new book, he makes the case for its abolition.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

“Same Bed Different Dreams” traces a mysterious government in exile, a shadowy tech giant, and writing-community beef.

The filming of Edward Albee’s play with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was a feat of creative struggle.

Despite a glut of laws limiting reproductive rights, remarkably little is known about the uterus and its workings.

The most promising leaders on the left today are not elected politicians.

When the author began to transition in her 60s, she saw a lifetime of experiences in a new light.

Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.

Lexi Freiman’s novel about a canceled writer skewers pieties left and right.

The writer’s collected letters are a glorious escape from the annoyances of social life into the splendor of prose.

Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our writers and editors enjoyed in 2023

A new illustrated edition of “Entangled Life” shows how extensively we rely on fungi.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.