Ann Hulbert

A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.

Chris Power’s debut collection, ‘Mothers,’ reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.

How The Atlantic’s literary editor turns a daily deluge of new books into magazine coverage.

Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

The young protesters now on the march are responsible and mature—and they’re asking adults to grow up.

Tara Westover’s coming-of-age story follows her upbringing in a survivalist family, and her decision to leave that life behind.

A new dynamic collection of short stories from Emily Fridlund revels in discomfort and disorientation.

Allegra Goodman’s novel tests its characters—a multiplayer obsessive, an artist, a high-school teacher—in ingenious ways.

In his most recent book, Alex Beam details the disintegration of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s friendship.

Russian audiences swooned over Van Cliburn during a fraught period in relations with his home country. Nigel Cliff tells the humble musician’s story in a new biography.

Max Porter’s one-of-a-kind debut novel