The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction ... Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other.

It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling ...

This year, the holidays (Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, and New Year) fall between a sobering election, a disappointing climate conference, and an ominous inauguration. To get a recipient’s attention ...

Every year we kick off the holiday season with a roundup of books recommended by the War on the Rocks team. Enrich your ...

To paraphrase Gandhi: the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. To date our housing system has chosen to make women experiencing homelessness invisible ...

And just like that, it’s December. I swear time goes by faster both in the summer and around the holidays. On the plus side, ...

Yolanda Pierce, a scholar on Black religion, tells PW her new book, ‘The Wounds are the Witness,’ explores how learning about ...

Including an Arthurian fantasy, a challenging classic, a delightful mystery, and Maya Hawke reading Joan Didion.

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Every time I use it, gritting my teeth and checking whether anyone is approaching from the other side, I think about how much of the urban environment is designed without a thought for the safety of ...

Authors discuss why equal opportunity and pay equity are so difficult to achieve, and what can be done about it.