Labor unions are more popular than most elected officials. A labor journalist explains how they can build political power.

Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted” makes the case for retail warehouse work as a subject worthy of serious fiction.

His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.

John Washington has spent years reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a new book, he makes the case for its abolition.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

The filming of Edward Albee’s play with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was a feat of creative struggle.

The most promising leaders on the left today are not elected politicians.

Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.

Lexi Freiman’s novel about a canceled writer skewers pieties left and right.

The writer’s collected letters are a glorious escape from the annoyances of social life into the splendor of prose.

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our writers and editors enjoyed in 2023

A new illustrated edition of “Entangled Life” shows how extensively we rely on fungi.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

For all the messiness of his music, his account of his life in Sonic Youth is conspicuously tidy.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The senator has always wrestled with his conscience—and compromise.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.