Terri Ochiagha is a deeply perceptive literary scholar who has an exceptional talent for explicatory prose. Her voice is clear and lucid. Unquestionably, her body of work so far is immensely ...

Nicole R. Fleetwood. Little, Brown, Nov. 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-56430-4) Fleetwood interrogates how her hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, went from a positive example of Rust Belt grit to a violent, ...

When I was in graduate school, one of my film classes read an essay by a sociologist named Tony Bennett — who was no relation ...

Who remembers General Sir John Hackett? He was a distinguished soldier who in retirement wrote two popular novels, enjoyed by ...

Ochiagha explains why she is writing the first full-length biography of Chinua Achebe, through years of archival research ...

My disappearing abs were just one of many demoralizing trade-offs my career as a biohacker took when I got pregnant. Since ...

Her debut, Whore, published in 2001, is a furious, stream-of-consciousness, autofictional rendering of Arcan’s experiences as ...

This week’s story, “ The Readers ,” takes the form of a one-sided conversation between a male writer and a female therapist.

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

Another sobering read is Robert Barrington's Corrupted Kingdom: Britain's Disappearing Integrity – and How We Can Get it Back ...

In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the Revolution has become dramatically more complex. Can it still inspire ...

Students are gloating about their “easy 100 per cent. No study”. We are creating a generation of doctors who didn’t bother to ...