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How Jia Tolentino’s incisive, capacious essays became essential reading.

Yoram Hazony has written the closest thing to a manifesto for intellectuals on the right.

Lisa Taddeo’s "Three Women" is an unsparing portrait of desire.

The child witnesses in her new book focus on the bewildering experience of war.

The people who bet big on disruptive technologies have a lot in common.

A debut novel explores self-care through the mind of a caregiver.

From exploration to Cold War militarization, how the Arctic became the focus of the climate crisis.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

“If we can make the meat without the animal, why wouldn’t we do that?”

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

The women in her new novel confront abuse and grapple with faith.

Suketu Mehta’s new book reckons with the colonialism and exploitation that have uprooted so many people.

His books keep pushing the same technocratic fixes. But today’s most pressing questions cannot be depoliticized.

The author’s latest book “Outrages” has been postponed. But she was once essential reading.

A new book about the medieval holy wars exposes a crisis in the field of history.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

A novelist reckons with the disappearance of his country.