The author of Capital returns with a short book on inequality that asks big questions

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in a Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged...

Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

A new biography of the French Impressionist argues that Monet himself owed everything to the three most important women in his life.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial...

The book is not perfect but it lights its subjects with such sensitivity that it makes much of contemporary history look ghostly by comparison

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course.

The third novel in the author’s Morning Star series considers how the extreme can engulf the everyday.

The wonders of oceanic life shine through in a magical book that is at once Anthropocene novel, disquieting AI thriller, postcolonial allegory and a...