Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

The superrich gain most from a top-heavy economy. But it’s the class of meritocrats just beneath them who justify the system.

“Something New Under the Sun” is science fiction about celebrity, self-deception, and climate crisis, set in the very near future.

Amia Srinivasan’s book “The Right to Sex” asks difficult questions about who is deemed attractive and who isn’t.

The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

Why do we praise even the most futile efforts to meet opponents halfway?

The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

A new book on Green Bank, West Virginia, falls into some of the worst tropes of writing about rural America.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

His works have been banned and championed, praised and denounced. Love him or hate him, Lawrence is always worth arguing with.

Nonfiction narratives that purport to explain life in Islam’s far-flung capitals paper over the brutal hand of U.S. foreign policy.

In over 150 hours of his podcast “Revolutions” and a new book, Duncan wrestles with centuries of upheaval.

After Trump’s election, Rorty’s prophecy of social collapse went viral. His final book is perhaps the clearest account of his political thinking.

A new book traces the language of brainwashing to a series of Cold War–era scares.

Beth Morgan’s “A Touch of Jen” is the latest work to reckon with a social media–fueled obsession.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

A new book examines the tension between Elon Musk’s personality and the business of making cars. But what if there is none?

The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite.