Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

The Cinta Larga people were sitting on a wealth of diamonds. They didn’t turn to mining until they saw devastation all around them.

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics most admired in 2024

Tulsi Gabbard may have scammed her way onto a bestseller list.

“Rejection” is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation.

How politicians used the story of one young patient to neglect the AIDS crisis

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.

Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.

Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges.

“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

In Emily Witt’s memoir of hedonism and journalism, dancing is a way of processing political chaos.

Dinaw Mengestu’s novels, layered with crisis and heartbreak, show a different side of the nation’s capital.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our critics recommend this fall

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.