The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.

A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham” imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.

In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub skewers small-town bourgeois society.

Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” brilliantly evokes a hazy state of self-isolation.

Mark O’Connell’s book set out to explore survivalist subcultures. Then the pandemic hit.

A new book about the legendary singer Odetta comes not a minute too soon.

Finding refuge in Bill Buford’s obsession with French food

A new book traces the ways liberals have enabled nativism and xenophobia for decades.

Susan Fowler’s memoir is a remarkable record of personal struggle—but shows the problem with trusting the system.

The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”

From alcohol to amphetamines, a new book shows intimate links between the policing of substances and the waging of war.