Efforts to stop the spread of infectious disease have always suffered from a cycle of panic and neglect. Vaccine skepticism in the new administration brings even greater challenges.

The new millennium promised a more peaceful, more stable, and more prosperous world. What happened?

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.

The Cinta Larga people were sitting on a wealth of diamonds. They didn’t turn to mining until they saw devastation all around them.

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics most admired in 2024

Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges.

“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

In Emily Witt’s memoir of hedonism and journalism, dancing is a way of processing political chaos.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our critics recommend this fall

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.

To improve conditions and lower prices, tenants should start withholding rent.

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

“Intermezzo” is Rooney’s most somber novel, more attentive to loss and irreversible change.

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.