The death of an Afghan American teenager exposes the limits of assimilation and acceptance in Patmeena Sabit’s panoramic novel, “Good People.”

Five women reckon with the joys, struggles and shifting priorities of adulthood in Emily Nemens’s new novel, “Clutch.”

A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety...

A recent study has revealed that domestic animals are involved in the transport of an invasive flatworm species in France. Terrestrial flatworms...

A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety

McCurdy’s new book is a work of fiction, but writing it helped her work through some complicated memories from her own life.

Daniel Poppick’s novel, “The Copywriter,” peeks into a writer’s journal as he navigates his everyday life and a tumultuous period in American...

In “The Family Snitch,” the reporter Francesca Fontana delves into her father’s criminal history — and their complicated, painful...

In her new novel in stories, “This Is Not About Us,” Allegra Goodman traces the small but vivid dramas of one sprawling Jewish family.

On a recent trip to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston witnessed the impact of one of the planet’s most potent invasive...