In "Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens," the Hungarian “master of the apocalypse” rues China’s relentless modernization.

A historian attempts to follow Tudor hygiene with a daily regime of linen underwear.

Infrastructure is everywhere, and its upkeep is proving impossible.

We have a habit of looking to the animal kingdom to validate the way we love.

"Exit Right” traces the political transformations of Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, and others.

The Times's film critic writes as though a review can still make or break a work of art. It can't.

After his brother’s death, the writer began to reconsider the science behind life.

A new book ignores the disturbing history of finance in America.

David Denby dives deep into the English classes of three high schools in his new book “Lit Up.”

How self-immolation threatens the Chinese government.

Robert Lowell adored intelligent women and treated them terribly.

Ian Buruma’s memoir of his grandparents follows a tradition of haunting elegies by Jewish descendants.

For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.