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Is it shameful, or sensible, to put down a book you don’t enjoy? Three little letters, and social media, have turbocharged a longstanding debate.

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

An ungainly new biography by the German philosopher Thomas Meyer purports to situate Arendt in the context of her own era.

Paul Theroux traced the British coastline in 1982 for his book “The Kingdom by the Sea.” This year he walked parts of the new King Charles III England Coast Path, a continuous route along the country’s seashore.

The best-selling author Hannah Whitten recommends thrillers, horror, fantasy novels and more about the misdeeds of the ultrawealthy (and their comeuppance).

He spent decades as a magazine editor and wrote an acclaimed history of small-town America, as well as biographies of the novelists Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.

In his new book, Chang-rae Lee follows a 10-year-old into the social powder kegs of schoolyards and summer camps.

In “Sunrise,” Téa Obreht mashes up Western gothic, murder mystery and survival saga.

In Richard Russo’s new novel, “Under the Falls,” a singer reckons with his troubled past and the community he left behind.

The former president will discuss works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson, among others, in a podcast that will premiere in September.