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.

How men in the Civil Rights movement erased women from its ranks.

A new book exposes the way America's punitive education system funnels black girls from the classroom into the justice system.

A new book shows our history of helplessness in the face of accidental shootings.

Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.

A new book contends that we can discover music better than an algorithm.

Evolutionary theorist Edward O. Wilson has an ambitious plan to halt ecological ruin.

The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.

In a new collection of her letters, Laura Ingalls Wilder confronts the end of the frontier.