Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.

A new biography explains the contradictions in a man who defended equality while owning slaves.

Her story is hard to share, but Sue Klebold's book about her son shows Columbine from a new perspective.

A new art book aims to show that biology is not destiny.

Do our memorials to the dead do more harm than good?

After the revolution, former slaves and native populations were forced to segregate from the new Republic.

There are far more conservatives being driven around in limos these days than liberals.

Before the word processor, perfect copy was the domain of the typist—not the literary genius.

The same fracking bosses are the heroes of one book and the villains of another.

Luke Mogelson's 'These Heroic, Happy Dead' illustrates the perils of writing war fiction.

Adam Hochschild's book is a post-Cold War history of the Spanish Civil War.

Don DeLillo’s techno-prophetic novel hungers for tradition.

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on one of Marvel's iconic superheroes, reinvigorating the Black Panther for a new generation.

In “Ladivine,” the French writer promises a perfect psychological novel—before blazing a new path entirely.

We need collective political action, not "marketplace feminism."