Judith Shulevitz

Critics wrote the work off as kitsch for the masses. But a set of murals celebrating Social Security—now threatened with destruction—show that such sweeping judgments went too far.

In a new study, Namwali Serpell describes how the novelist located the missing stories of Black America.

The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption under the president’s photograph. It still has a story to tell.

A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-partisan appeal.

The novelist liked playing God—a very capricious one.

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.

Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.

Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.