After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

The book chronicles the poet’s adolescent fervor for the craft of writing, which opened up a path away from her controlling father’s strict Rastafari household and toward a life of her own making.

At The Atlantic, we published our selection of the 10 best books of 2024 on Wednesday, and we’ll be releasing our end-of-year lists for the best in film, television, music, and podcasts in the ...

End-of-year lists are by nature subjective, and selecting books in this way can be particularly hard. Tens of thousands of titles are published annually in the U.S., and a reader’s time is ...

The book on your nightstand. Or, as it happens, Noem’s new memoir. Book publishers don’t employ fact-checking teams, and they don’t require a full fact-check before publication.

Justin Torres, center, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, is surrounded by other winners and finalists who came to the stage for the reading of a plea for a cease-fire in the Middle ...

The Brush, by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, translated by Robin Myers. The Brush is a book-length poem about people trapped and menaced by forces beyond their control. It tells the story of Colombia ...