Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing ...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Lukasik explores how American evangelical narratives of global Christian persecution have ...

It’s been nine years since David Szalay’s last novel, “All That Man Is,” and while he quickly followed it up with an ...

Boris Fishman’s new book follows a family that leaves a war-torn country for a shot at asylum in the United States.

A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment ...

A Memoir of Romance and Divorce ,” Mlotek writes that her experience “hadn’t defined my feelings, but it had changed the ...

The late author’s “Wolf Hall” trilogy, Barrett writes, uses details from Thomas Cromwell’s life as “nucleation sites around ...

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In his mesmerising study of the great auk and its afterlife, Tim Birkhead asks how far science itself was to blame for the bird’s extinction ...

Ibo's Landing is a novel about race; Conversations with Ted Kooser examines his career as a poet; Love in the Lowcountry is a ...

Dominic Alexander continues his series on revolutionary change in history by looking at the founding of Russian socialism ...

Celebrity bookworms are here to stay. Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book club in the ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager have ...