In her poems and “The Cancer Journals,” Lorde fought to name her experience.

Megan Nolan’s novel is a compulsive story of desire, subservience, and self-annihiliation.

How thought leaders resurrected the myth of a carefree prehistoric lifestyle

Her new documentary, “Dancing With the Devil,” is a masterclass in owning the narrative.

A new HBO documentary investigates the first family of QAnon

The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.

A TNR roundtable discussion

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

Soul City in North Carolina was designed to build Black wealth and address racial injustice. Then its opponents lined up.

The line between legal pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs has less to do with science than with race, class, and gender.

Two new books shed light on the different ways we view the business of existing.

Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Mahatma Gandhi appear in this history of revolutionary struggles. But the main characters are lesser-known figures.

Amazon’s glitzy new indoor park is supported by government subsidies, but it will be private property.

Has any other novelist lived a life so steeped in political intrigue?

A new book explores the impact tourism has had on our politics, our planet, and our selves.

How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice

How the 1990s created a group of thinkers obsessed with cancel culture

Chloé Zhao’s film risks romanticizing a harsh life in the gig economy.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Donald Trump has left a void in the discourse that is being filled with vapid nonsense.