Why novelists love to imagine great historical figures as detectives
Edmund White, who died yesterday at 85, infused his life with as much pleasure as he did his writing.
Tom McCarthy's dazzling, elusive new novel revolves around a corporate anthropologist trying to deliver a comprehensive report on mankind.
The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.
Groundbreaking elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.
The “perfect” platonic bond used to be between two men. What happened?
A 16th-century German accountant compiled a book of personal fashion that rivals today’s Instagrammers in detail and dedication.
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
A recent work by the late critic Clive James about his literary idol, Philip Larkin, artfully examines the complex poet’s canon.
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.