A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.

In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism.

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Colonizers once tried to erase indigenous culture. Now they exploit it.

In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.

"She Said," a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay silent.

Ultra-educated, highly paid, overworked elites are not partners in the struggle to reform an unequal system.

Her new novel "Inland" is a rollicking, deeply empathetic adventure set in Arizona in the late nineteenth century.

Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?

School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States

A new book takes the concerns of campus activists seriously.

A new book heralds workers fighting for a fair deal—even when they can’t join unions.

Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.

How governments use “remote control” policies to prevent asylum seekers coming anywhere close to refuge.

Why did a white poet see the success of writers of color as a signal of his own demise?

Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.

The Nobel laureate, who died this week, made the world bigger for all of us.

Wars, deaths, suffering women, and families and their discontents are the abiding themes of her novels.