I have long advocated the transformative power of reading for pleasure, education, work, to expand the mind and illuminate ...

Clear-eyed works of history and analysis—and a moving memoir of captivity—offered insights that transcended headlines.

Here’s what we’re turning to for clarity and perspective on our current political moment. By Jess Bidgood The last few months have felt like a political thriller, an epic co-written by Shakespeare and ...

We speak of America’s political “fracturing” and “polarization” as if these are new things under the sun. In fact, as Yuval Levin reminds us in “American Covenant,” the whole point of the U.S.

In this conversation, the New York Times Opinion columnists Carlos Lozada, a former book critic, and Pamela Paul, previously the editor of The Times’s Book Review, each share one book that, in their ...