The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

Why do we praise even the most futile efforts to meet opponents halfway?

The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

A new book on Green Bank, West Virginia, falls into some of the worst tropes of writing about rural America.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

His works have been banned and championed, praised and denounced. Love him or hate him, Lawrence is always worth arguing with.

Nonfiction narratives that purport to explain life in Islam’s far-flung capitals paper over the brutal hand of U.S. foreign policy.

In over 150 hours of his podcast “Revolutions” and a new book, Duncan wrestles with centuries of upheaval.

After Trump’s election, Rorty’s prophecy of social collapse went viral. His final book is perhaps the clearest account of his political thinking.

A new book traces the language of brainwashing to a series of Cold War–era scares.

Beth Morgan’s “A Touch of Jen” is the latest work to reckon with a social media–fueled obsession.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

A new book examines the tension between Elon Musk’s personality and the business of making cars. But what if there is none?

The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite.

Populism is the villain of Jan-Werner Müller’s new book. But a revitalized democracy needs to engage the people.

Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other?

In her rivetingly funny letters, the author of “The Lottery” transformed the stuff of daily life into magic.

The great discoveries of the age captivated his imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.

Narrated by an interpreter for a war criminal at the Hague, Kitamura’s new novel weighs connection and disconnection.