Slave narratives have always been popular—and predictable. Can a new generation rewrite the rules?

Roy Scranton's 'War Porn' bucks the trends of recent fiction about soldiers.

In ‘Pond,’ Claire-Louise Bennett stomps all over writing-dude-in-nature territory with her poetic unraveling of Thoreau’s wilderness jaunt.

To understand global inequality, you have to understand Brazil's inequality.

From sloth to burnout, each age remakes exhaustion in its own image.

His new novel 'Heroes of the Frontier' turns a troubled mother into a questing hero.

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should.

Nancy Isenberg's new book tells the story of a large and forgotten class of “waste people.”

The story of a family curse, 'Homegoing' wrestles with African American identity.

What men got wrong about the economy.