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In her vivid epistolary novel “The White Hot,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.

During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

George Packer, the author of multiple works on a divided America, tries his hand at dystopian allegory.

In “Without Consent,” Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women’s ongoing struggle for justice.

The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don’t expect him to try to win you over.

“The Silver Book” follows one pivotal year in the life of the famed Italian costume designer Danilo Donati.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.

Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage.

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.