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Donald Trump's eerie likeness to Thomas Mann's Mussolini parable.

Jeffrey Toobin's new biography refuses to take her radical beliefs seriously.

Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir reckons with racial injustice, and tells the story of his political education.

How Olympic gymnastics beat score inflation and became a sport.

In 'The Last Days of New Paris' avant-garde artists fight the Nazis.

For more than thirty years, Ozick has led the way in affirming the role and responsibility of the critic.

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Roy Scranton's 'War Porn' bucks the trends of recent fiction about soldiers.

In ‘Pond,’ Claire-Louise Bennett stomps all over writing-dude-in-nature territory with her poetic unraveling of Thoreau’s wilderness jaunt.

To understand global inequality, you have to understand Brazil's inequality.

From sloth to burnout, each age remakes exhaustion in its own image.

His new novel 'Heroes of the Frontier' turns a troubled mother into a questing hero.

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should.