In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is now defined by score settling. But what do centuries of feuding have to teach us about getting even?

Raised in a large chaotic family outside Boston, the journalist Janice Page recalls an eventful childhood and the love story that brought her to China...

From using humour to deal with bullies to repurposing failure as material for his stand-up comedy, Vir Das’s new book provides many laughs and a few...

From using humour to deal with bullies to repurposing failure as material for his stand-up comedy, Vir Das’s new book provides many laughs and a few...

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was...

A new batch of nearly 21,000 unredacted emails and file attachments from Jeffrey Epstein revealed Saturday that the disgraced financier was...

“Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures,” a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant nonconformist.

DEBBIE JACOB SOMETIMES a single line in a book jumps out and grabs you. For me, that happened in Tom Segev’s book entitled 1949, the First...

Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?