A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.

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Larry Liza, a man who once worked as a toilet cleaner in Kisumu, has risen to prominence and runs the Umbrella Project which ...

Allegra Goodman’s novel follows a pampered 16th-century orphan tested by a number of catastrophes.