Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

In “Inseparable,” Beauvoir revisited an intense relationship from childhood. Why did she decide not to publish it?

In his posthumously-published biography of the artist, Alex Danchev unearths the gleeful child behind the highbrow works.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

“One Friday in April” is an attempt to write about suicide without the consolations of his signature style.

Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis

Tim Mak’s new book, “Misfire,” traces the spectacularly bungled reign of Wayne LaPierre.

How the division of labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.

When newspapers skimp on local coverage, who will hold lawmakers accountable?

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.

Sir Winston has suffered far less from his critics than from his hagiographers. I have one in particular in mind.

Denis Villeneuve’s film makes the complex world of “Dune” comprehensible through stunning visuals.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.

He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?