The novels "Sex and Rage" and "Weetzie Bat" shine a light on the City of Angels.

On the author's 200th birthday, what "Walden" can teach us about our own time.

Osama Alomar's story collection "The Teeth of the Comb" looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.

Sylvia Brownrigg’s new novel follows up on an affair between two women, 20 years after their first encounter.

Angela Nagle's new book "Kill All Normies" looks at how the alt-right stole its language and tactics from some unexpected places.

A new book attempts to portray the Shah of Iran as a frustrated democrat.

His new novel asks: What happens when everyday life is overloaded with political significance?

How conservative hucksters have tried to define the intellectual foundation of an administration whose primary trait is incoherence.

A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart.

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.

American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.

In "Goldfish and Concrete" the Dutch author proves that good things come in small packages.

Nancy MacLean discusses her new book about James McGill Buchanan, who helped shape the modern right’s antipathy toward democracy itself.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.

Danzy Senna's new novel examines the ambivalent privileges of passing.

Yascha Mounk's new book charts the rise of an approach that punishes the poor.

The parenting advice in "The Vanishing American Adult" is deceptively bipartisan.

Amid diplomatic tensions, a great, troubled experiment in news faces pressure to close.