Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.

It undermines equality and the common good.

They’ve always overcharged for books. Now they’re demanding obscene costs for e-books.

The pandemic has only accelerated a years-long trend of cultural homogenization—and it is bound to get worse.

The curious appeal of the country legend in a divided nation

Her new story collection poses thorny questions and defies her critics.

An elaborate secret life was a necessity for children’s author Louise Fitzhugh.

Three new books show how Northern states betrayed Black people, and why many found Mexico a safer destination.

He was the dean of American cooking. He embodied some of food culture’s most persistent problems.

The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.

What is lost when houses become fortresses against fires, floods, and disease?

More than iron, stone, or oil, wood explains human history.

Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.

The co-working company may have been doomed from the start. That didn’t matter.

A new book shows how the NRA forged an alliance between cops and civilian gun owners.

The former president seems unable to reckon with the failures of his presidency and diagnose the Republican Party’s incurable nihilism.

Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger” is a toothsome morsel.

A Trump post-presidency memoir would be a mega-bestseller. But is the industry prepared to deal with the fallout?

Over 10 million people are stateless today. Why have governments failed to help them?

In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.