A new book traces Chekhov’s relentless work as both a doctor and a master of the short story.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

His poetry was a bridge from feeling to fact, sense to senselessness, and from the possible to the impossible.

Not many people bought her books, but nearly everyone who did wrote their own.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.

A conversation with Ryan O’Hanlon, author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution”

Their new book, “What World Is This?” examines human connection, vulnerability, and grief.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics.

Stephanie LaCava’s novel and David Cronenberg’s film “Crimes of the Future” each imagine a world without pain.

“Our America” presents a mournful, terrible, exhilarating, and honest tour of the United States.

A new book exalts the heyday of music magazines, when electric prose reigned and egos collided.

In Ryan Lee Wong’s novel, a young activist gets caught up in his own idealism.

Lucy Sante’s new book uncovers the story of New York’s pursuit of water, and the homes and communities destroyed in the process.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant make the case for health care revolution.

Timothy Shenk studies how political leaders build popular majorities. He warns that the next big realignment could be led by the right.

While the anti-monopoly movement has a huge victory to celebrate, the publishing industry is left with a sense of impending doom.

Charles Leerhsen’s biography promises the unfiltered story of Bourdain’s life and final days. But it misses the qualities that made him so magnetic in the first place.

In the quaint, well-to-do worlds of her novels, anyone could be guilty. Murderers kill to beat the social order at its own game.