Book Review

The French author’s award-winning memoir, “Sad Tiger,” is a richly literary and starkly shattering account of childhood sexual abuse.

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself. 

The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.

“Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

A new account of the papacy’s recent history reveals the transformation of the office in the mass-media age.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army, though, it was a shot at freedom.

In “My Good Bright Wolf,” Sarah Moss recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation.

How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?

“Dear Dickhead” is set in the messy aftermath of a public reckoning, before its characters have achieved any kind of resolution.

The former First Lady’s new book, “Melania,” promises to draw back the drapery and expose the person behind the persona. It obscures more than it reveals.

Niche-porn addicts, self-proclaimed feminist allies, and nightmare optimization bros converge in Tony Tulathimutte’s “Rejection.”

In “Hannah’s Children,” an economist and mother of eight interviews highly educated women with large families—and examines the reasons for America’s declining fertility rate.

Years after John McGahern became the center of a national censorship debate, his novel “The Pornographer” cast an impassive eye on death, sex, and patriarchal repression.

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.

When conservative activists began waging battle against diversity plans, some had a much bigger target in mind.

“The Hearing Test” probes the inner life of a narrator stricken by sudden deafness.

A new book argues that the invention of states and corporations has something to teach us about A.I. But perhaps it’s the other way around.

In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.

In “My Name Is Barbra,” the icon takes a maximalist approach to her own life, studying every trial, triumph, and snack food of a six-decade career.

Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention.