In “Inseparable,” Beauvoir revisited an intense relationship from childhood. Why did she decide not to publish it?

In his posthumously-published biography of the artist, Alex Danchev unearths the gleeful child behind the highbrow works.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

Forty years ago, on the barricades for radical feminism, I set out to “prove” she was overrated.

The final installment in John Richardson’s mammoth biography reveals the artist’s fiendish control over his admirers.

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

“One Friday in April” is an attempt to write about suicide without the consolations of his signature style.

Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis

Tim Mak’s new book, “Misfire,” traces the spectacularly bungled reign of Wayne LaPierre.

What made her so interested in cold-blooded, apparently motiveless killers?

How the division of labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new history of humanity looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.

A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.

When newspapers skimp on local coverage, who will hold lawmakers accountable?

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.