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“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.

When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

The success of his novel “House Made of Dawn,” the first work by a Native American to win a Pulitzer, inspired a wave of Native literature.

The books offer the promise of an ending where all questions are answered and some sort of justice is done.

In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.

A new book by the historian Dan Stone seeks to amend — and expand — our understanding of the genocide.

How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education.

The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.

A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.