His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was the culmination of a process that started six years earlier. Here’s how gonzo was conjured to life.

The “Succession” actor’s autobiography is pleasingly horrible.

Is it possible to separate the celebrated novelist from the disgraced writer of fascist polemics?

How silent cinema’s slapstick genius choreographed the age of viral video

Journalist Christopher Leonard’s new book, “The Lords of Easy Money,” follows the unintended consequences of quantitative easing.

After disasters in 2018 and 2019, Boeing faced intense public pressure. Then the pandemic hit.

Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.

Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.

In Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” and Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind,” upward mobility is elusive.

Few writers examined their own assumptions and misapprehensions as intelligently as Didion.

A sweeping new history of American comics traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.

A trip to the New York Historical Society’s exhibition of the legendary biographer’s archive with CUNY journalism graduate students

The best reason to listen to Johnny Cash is his music, not his political opinions.

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?