How booksellers are coping with the coronavirus crisis—and what comes next

In Robert Kolker’s "Hidden Valley Road," a family tragedy illuminates the mysterious origins of an illness.

We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.

The final installment of Mantel’s trilogy is the bloodiest yet—and the saddest.

Recollections of My Nonexistence is big on relatable feminist insights but skips the difficult questions.

An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.

The Station Eleven author returns with another haunting novel.

A new memoir reveals a family’s sacrifices and triumphs.

The new HBO show, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel, imagines life under a fascist president.

In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.

Deb Olin Unferth’s philosophical new novel tackles animal rights, industrial agriculture, and the fate of humanity.

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.

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.

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

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

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