A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

“My hope for all readers is that they will shut the book and run out and protest. That’s what I always expect people to do. They seldom do it.”

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham” imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.

In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub skewers small-town bourgeois society.

Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” brilliantly evokes a hazy state of self-isolation.

Mark O’Connell’s book set out to explore survivalist subcultures. Then the pandemic hit.

A new book about the legendary singer Odetta comes not a minute too soon.

His new book diagnoses a society obsessed with property rights.

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

Finding refuge in Bill Buford’s obsession with French food

A new book traces the ways liberals have enabled nativism and xenophobia for decades.

Jerry Saltz’s new book markets an instagram-friendly version of creativity.