What would it mean to treat other living creatures fairly?

America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

Unlike accounts that focus on the travails of European settlers, Pekka Hämäläinen’s new book tells a 10,000-year story of Native cultures, politics, and resistance.

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

A new book traces Chekhov’s relentless work as both a doctor and a master of the short story.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

His poetry was a bridge from feeling to fact, sense to senselessness, and from the possible to the impossible.

Not many people bought her books, but nearly everyone who did wrote their own.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.

A conversation with Ryan O’Hanlon, author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution”

Their new book, “What World Is This?” examines human connection, vulnerability, and grief.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics.

Stephanie LaCava’s novel and David Cronenberg’s film “Crimes of the Future” each imagine a world without pain.

“Our America” presents a mournful, terrible, exhilarating, and honest tour of the United States.

A new book exalts the heyday of music magazines, when electric prose reigned and egos collided.

In Ryan Lee Wong’s novel, a young activist gets caught up in his own idealism.

Lucy Sante’s new book uncovers the story of New York’s pursuit of water, and the homes and communities destroyed in the process.