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The title of Taylor Swift’s next album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” spurred strong responses from a typically quiet bunch.

How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today.

During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?

The British author of dozens of literary works has denied the allegations that five women made against him on a podcast series.

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.

An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states.

Our columnist on notable new releases.

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly white.

Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.