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The National Book Award-winning author shows young readers a humane political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate.

In a world worth exploring, our reviewer argues, an occasional spill is the price of admission.

The protagonist of Eva Baltasar’s novel “Mammoth” contains multitudes, and that’s the way she likes it.

In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.

Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight for respect.

Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

In “Martyr!,” the poet Kaveh Akbar turns a grieving young man’s search for meaning into a piercing family saga.

A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.

In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.