Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story.

In “When the Museum Is Closed,” Emi Yagi takes her study of female objectification to a new, literal extreme.

New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.

A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell’s anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë’s ruthless text will always have the last word.

Nelio Biedermann’s “Lázár” is, for the most part, the well-rehearsed story of twentieth-century Europe. Why is it making such waves?

One of the biggest books of the year weaves a tale of financial peril—but a review of court documents complicates the narrative.

“Communion” tells the story of Vance's decision to become Catholic, but it’s strangely disdainful of the faith he has joined.

Hollywood was full of beauties. What Monroe had was something rarer: the ability to project.

If the possibility that one or more of the winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize was A.I.-generated chills us, it may be because of what it reveals about human writing.