“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.

The comic thriller “Squeeze Me” is set, like Hiaasen’s other books, in Florida—which turns out to make a big difference.

Did distractions, disruptions, and gossip shape Tolstoy’s novel as much as long-simmering ideas about morality and desire?

In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.

From George Washington to Simón Bolívar, magnetic leaders built modern democracies. They also broke them.

The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.

Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing

Barry Gewen’s biography is an exercise in downplaying the critics and justifying the abuse of power.

The Gettysburg gambit is just his latest attempt to appropriate American history and symbology and pervert it to suit his ends.

Far-right extremists may be souring on Trump as a political leader, but he’s resolutely making the world a better place for the worst among them.

The much-celebrated debut novel is representative of a younger generation’s approach to age-old dilemmas.

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

How the Covid lockdown is reconfiguring the nexus of getting and spending

Two books offer different approaches to the changing relationship between humans and nature.

Anti-Trump conservatives didn’t bring down Bernie Sanders. There are other forces pulling the Democratic Party to the center.

Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.

The Trump era has birthed a distinct new genre of political writing: irate, forgettable, and strangely complacent.

Robert Burrows was once the subject of a devastating book review. He was also much more than that.

They’re not trying to save the GOP from a demagogue. They’re infiltrating the Democratic Party.

On new nonfiction about white supremacy in America's past and present