Becca Rothfeld

In “We Who Wrestle With God,” the Canadian provocateur finds that biblical staples confirm his favorite theories about the culture war

Emmanuel Carrère’s new book recounts the criminal trial and the complex suffering caused by the terrorist attacks on Paris in 2015.

New books examine the emotion’s long history and the politically diverse movements it has served.

Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its loudest critics have claimed.

Mark Haber’s narrator has been thinking — and thinking, and thinking — about writing a book for years

In her new book, Christine Rosen says yes, but is imprecise about exactly how and why -- and what exactly we’re losing

“Fierce Desires,” by Rebecca L. Davis, is a wide-ranging survey of how Americans have thought about and practiced and policed sex since 1600.

In “We’re Alone,” the acclaimed novelist writes about her native Haiti and the storytellers who have influenced her.

“Living on Earth,” by best-selling writer Peter Godfrey-Smith, is a fascinating history of “organisms as causes, rather than evolutionary products.”

In “An Honest Woman,” Charlotte Shane writes about her job and about one particular client who became a dear companion.