A compelling personal story has long obscured the substance of his politics.

As jobs are downgraded and health care costs spiral, more and more Americans are dying early.

A philosopher, a medical crisis, and a mystery

Jeet Thayil’s new novel features a bereaved narrator, depression, and lots of drugs.

A new book explores whether rampant development can ease California’s housing shortage.

Midlife was once seen as a chance for women to reassert themselves. Then came an organized, misogynist backlash.

Can Hulu’s new documentary ever set the record straight?

Nicholas Fox Weber’s new book connects the ubiquitous device to the canon.

Her semi-autobiographical comedy, Twenties, is both about making it in Hollywood and about what makes good black art.

How Wikipedia managed to stay fun and weird after 20 years

Malcolm Harris’s book sketches a radical politics for the generation between Occupy Wall Street and the age of Trump.

The rise of the STEM-obsessed, corporate-partnered university

Teddy Wayne’s fourth novel, Apartment, explores the complexities of male friendship.

How millennial socialists make the case for a kinder politics

Has society really become too comfortable and complacent?

Jenn Shapland goes in search of the novelist—and discovers herself.

When her memoirs attracted moral outrage—and got her sued—she found a new way to frame stories.

A new book traces the workings of the Council for National Policy. But how much influence does the organization really wield?

From Nazi collaboration to money laundering, a new book chronicles the German bank’s “trail of destruction.”

A major biography and a recent film paint a picture of one of the greatest modern portraitists.