Catherine Lacey's novel ‘The Answers’ tells the story of a girlfriend experience.

A searching personal story, ‘Hunger’ defies a culture of thinness.

"The Tale of Beren and Lúthien" expands on a central aspect of the author's mythology, while shedding light on his own life.

In a new story collection, "Men Without Women," the writer examines how his characters cope—or fail to—in the wake of loss.

The poet was reserved and private in an age of confession. Now, a new biography tries to reveal her secrets.

"The End of Eddy" shows the pride and pain of people who feel left behind—for some very familiar reasons.

Elisabeth Rosenthal's new book 'An American Sickness' traces the effects of profit in American health care.

Clinton was back in the spotlight this week, setting off a storm of controversy over her future in Democratic Party politics.

Two books shed new light on the toppled dictator's final days—and what the U.S. still doesn’t understand about Iraq.

The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.

The senator from Minnesota is the rare politician with a funny bone.

The story of Fitzgerald as a victim of his own success has been greatly exaggerated.

Rachel Kadish’s "The Weight of Ink" is like A.S. Byatt's "Possession," but with more seventeenth-century Judaism.

The writer focused his talent on illuminating those the country left behind.

Publishers fear that Amazon is trying to dominate brick-and-mortar retail. They needn't worry.

The unlikely rise—and anti-democratic impulses—of seasteading.

John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.

The critic's new essay collection appears early in Trump's presidency, armed with purpose and reason.

The state of our teeth reveals—and reinforces—economic disadvantage in society.