Lit Hub's new ratings site exposes the flaws in the wider culture.

Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.

A new biography of the cult author shows that the most enduring character he created was his own.

The sport's role in liberating women from the passivity of Victorian society.

A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons.

Timothy Garton Ash's new book mounts an impassioned defense of free speech, but fails to reckon with its greatest flaw.

How a bookstore movement transformed the lives of a generation.

A new history shows our dating habits have always been shaped by our work lives.

How do you distinguish between the man and his protagonist?

Biographers try to see themselves in the reclusive poet, and fail to show us who she really was.

Patrick Kingsley’s latest book is an urgent appeal to humanity and reason.

Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.

A new biography explains the contradictions in a man who defended equality while owning slaves.

Her story is hard to share, but Sue Klebold's book about her son shows Columbine from a new perspective.