The Art of Vanishing Is a Marriage Memoir With Hidden Depths
Laura Smith looks to the haunting story of a missing child novelist to answer her own questions about balancing creativity and freedom with love and stability.
Book Review
When Truth and Reason Are No Longer Enough
In his new book, Steven Pinker is curiously blind to the power and benefits of small-town values.
Commander v. Chief
The lessons of Eisenhower’s civil-rights struggle with his chief justice Earl Warren
Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter
A much-anticipated young-adult debut taps into a tradition of speculative fiction rooted in African culture.
Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir
Tara Westover's coming-of-age story follows her upbringing in a survivalist family, and her decision to leave that life behind.
Fire Sermon Is a Profoundly Strange Meditation on Desire
Jamie Quatro's new novel offers deeply uncomfortable, but startlingly original, insights about human yearning.
The Devastating Paradox of Pakistan
How Afghanistan’s neighbor cultivated American dependency while subverting American policy
The Propulsive Power of Catapult
A new dynamic collection of short stories from Emily Fridlund revels in discomfort and disorientation.
The Storyteller Who Offers No Escape
Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai writes fiction devoid of revelation, resolution, and even periods.
A Mind-Bending Translation of the New Testament
David Bentley Hart’s text recaptures the awkward, multivoiced power of the original.