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

The home office was never designed to give workers more freedom. The pandemic has only made it worse.

The resumption of the NBA season could have been a watershed moment for labor. What happened?

The screenwriter’s novel “Antkind” takes aim at the worst kind of critic.

On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir

“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.

Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them.