Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes.

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

In her memoir Ghost Stories, grief is a form of knowledge—anguished and fragmentary, but knowledge nonetheless.

The appeal of marriage is waning in an age of supercharged misogyny.

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

A conversation with Jasper Craven about military education, abuse, and the uses of religion as a form of control.

In scrutinizing our relationship with the natural world, his classic works helped us to better understand ourselves.

London Falling investigates the mysterious death of Zac Brettler—and captures the austerity-ravaged state of Britain.

Her characters grapple with mean, stubborn, and lonely parents, and work out how to grow old without turning into them.

A new book highlights the difficulty of treating mental health issues without addressing simple facts of poverty and injustice in people’s lives.

A lightly spoiler-filled conversation with the author about his new novel, Vigil, climate change, and redemption.

Tom Junod wrestles with his father’s ideal of masculinity, and how to unlearn it.

Elisa Tamarkin retraces her father’s work in Vietnam, and untangles the relationship of American newspaper business to the American war machine.

Julia Cooke’s biography of three writers illuminates the profound complexity of women’s lives without apologizing, justifying, or moralizing.

A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s.

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

At workplaces from Starbucks to Apple, highly educated downwardly mobile young people are organizing for better conditions.

Small, local growers have long been hailed as the way to improve food. But large companies have the scale to make a bigger impact.