Political autobiographies are usually dreck, but some rise above their genre. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our ...

Americans are anxious about the election. The American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America survey found that ...

Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the ...

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living ...

The story of Lefty Leflar, who died earlier this month, epitomizes the experience of countless young Americans for whom the ...

Milley went on to describe the grave degree to which former President Donald Trump, under whom Milley had served, was a ...

Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.

The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, ...

Some Trump voters may believe his lies. But plenty more want Trump to be terrifying and stomach-turning so that reelecting ...

It is a radical gesture to treat the sick body, a body threatened by its own demise, as one that is also capable of ...

Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what ...