How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

A new book on Green Bank, West Virginia, falls into some of the worst tropes of writing about rural America.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

The characters in Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You” want you to know they considered alternatives to capitalism.

His works have been banned and championed, praised and denounced. Love him or hate him, Lawrence is always worth arguing with.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.

Nonfiction narratives that purport to explain life in Islam’s far-flung capitals paper over the brutal hand of U.S. foreign policy.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

In over 150 hours of his podcast “Revolutions” and a new book, Duncan wrestles with centuries of upheaval.

How the cataclysms of the past loomed over Sebald’s life and haunted his fiction

After Trump’s election, Rorty’s prophecy of social collapse went viral. His final book is perhaps the clearest account of his political thinking.

A new book traces the language of brainwashing to a series of Cold War–era scares.

Beth Morgan’s “A Touch of Jen” is the latest work to reckon with a social media–fueled obsession.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

A new book examines the tension between Elon Musk’s personality and the business of making cars. But what if there is none?

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?