Why the hottest literary trend of the last decade is so blindingly white

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting” explores the traumatic history of a country torn apart by wars and gangs—and the dangers of not facing the past.

Is the magazine’s tradition of argument equal to the crises of the Trump era?

Written out of the traumas of exile and marriage, her novel “Divorcing” captures a divided self.

Not much!

New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

In her new book, the poet decided to ask white people about their whiteness.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

“The Secret Life of Groceries” exposes the dark secrets of America’s food supply.

How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

“Long Live the Post Horn!”—the latest novel by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth—is an acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.

When millennials talk about being burned out, they are pointing to the failures of capitalism.

The craziest year in publishing industry history just got crazier.

Current laws target low-level employees and let the worst offenders off the hook.

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length but has far more heft.

“One Billion Americans” is a loosely-informed mishmash of policy, held together by anxieties about American power.

The radical anthropologist was that rare figure: a scholar who was also an activist.