The cover of Margaret Atwood’s memoir shows a close-up of the author holding up a finger to her mouth, a mischievous look in ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

This essay explores how Israel’s security policies—civilian and military—impact Palestinian lives across three contexts: Inside Israel (1948 borders): Palestinian citizens experience legal equality ...

Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief ...

Yiyun Li’s latest memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” begins with a careful analysis of a sentence often used to deliver ...