Has society really become too comfortable and complacent?

Jenn Shapland goes in search of the novelist—and discovers herself.

From Nazi collaboration to money laundering, a new book chronicles the German bank’s “trail of destruction.”

In a new memoir, Dan Peres reckons with his addiction and captures the halcyon days of a media empire.

Adrienne Miller’s memoir of her relationship with David Foster Wallace is part of an emerging genre of women coming of age via an older, powerful man.

This Brilliant Darkness wants readers to see strangers as people.

With Diverse Editions, the publishing industry tried to fix its diversity problem. Whoops

Why the ideal of neutrality in journalism pushes discourse to the right

Paul Yoon's second novel, "Run Me to Earth," examines lives touched by violence.

For the characters in Miranda Popkey’s debut, opening up doesn’t always bring relief.

How do you let others influence you while retaining your own ideas? Four literary critics tried to find out.

Eastman was a women’s suffragist, labor reformer, and founder of the ACLU, but her work never quite took center stage.

A new biography—and a reissued collection of short fiction—resurrects a writer who deserves a closer look.

Ada Calhoun diagnoses the forgotten generation's fortysomething crisis.

A new book explains how finance took over the U.S. economy, disempowered workers, and undermined democracy.

Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel is a triumph of Jo-ness.

The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read.

The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.

Family Record purports to be the story of the French writer's life—but that story remains as elusive as ever.

A new essay collection shows his opposition to Cold War politics in literature.