Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a dark drama about female desire in 1960s California.

From the written letter to online commentary, the fine art of literary hate mail endures.

Do our memorials to the dead do more harm than good?

There are far more conservatives being driven around in limos these days than liberals.

Before the word processor, perfect copy was the domain of the typist—not the literary genius.

Don DeLillo’s techno-prophetic novel hungers for tradition.

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on one of Marvel's iconic superheroes, reinvigorating the Black Panther for a new generation.

Jill Lepore uncovers racism and sexual harassment in the life of a Greenwich Village hero.

Eric Jay Dolin's latest book, "Brilliant Beacons," is a study of American history through its lighthouses and coastlines.

The tenants and landlords in Matthew Desmond's new book are caught in a vicious cycle.

Journalist Óscar Martínez’s new book resembles war reporting with a cinematic flair.

The haphazard origins of American gun culture.

He made thousands of obsessive drawings of butterflies—but do they help us read his novels?

Newly discovered letters give a rare glimpse of how her poetry—and her radical politics—were formed.

In her new book, Nancy Jo Sales explores how teenage girls on social media provoke attention—but fails to show how they also demand respect.

The Metropolitan Museum makes a bid for the modern.

Evolutionary theorist Edward O. Wilson has an ambitious plan to halt ecological ruin.

The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.

In a new collection of her letters, Laura Ingalls Wilder confronts the end of the frontier.